Jasta 1

[Joe M]

A couple of years back I 'completed' the victory and casualty log of Jasta 1 and had it printed in C&C U.K (Vol 37 No.4) It was under the folllowing headings;
Date of claim; German Pilots name; Aircraft shot down; Serial No. Claim No. Time; Notes; The notes covered the Allied sqn., the crew and what happened to them Safe, KiA, PoW etc and included references to where the information came from There were aslo photographs of some of the German pilots involved.
If this is of interest I would like to add this to the forum for discussion but I do not know if this is possible. I have it as a pdf.
HELP!!!!!!!!!!!

[Barry Hickson]

That would be a great resource, Joe.
Lets hope Scott can come up with a plan as to how it can be achieved.

[Scott]

PDF files can be attached to a post. See Attachments and Images in the FAQ. If you need more help, please let me know.

Scott

[Joe M]

Hi Scott,
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. What forum would it be best suited to?
Kind Regards
Joe

[Scott]

Right here would be fine Joe.

[Joe M]

Hi Guys,
Its nice to put your head above the papapits once in a while. Please digest the attachment and let me have your comments. Pat and I are working our way thro' the rest of the Jastas at the moment. It takes quite a while when the day job has to be kept going, her indoors kept happy, play a bit of tennis and then find the time to do a bit of research and try to make the odd model or one!!!
Enjoy
Joe M

[PFFF]

http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/ai...ft-1916-a.html

[fetubi]

Hi All (especially Russ, Graeme and Joe),

And good evening and hoping everyone on the Forum has a great Christmas and New Year.

Thanks for the positive words about TSTB in this topic. As Russ implies, I set myself to be fairly scrupulous about incorporating what I gleaned from sources like the AIR1 files - namely, I wouldn't have come up with the idea that Boger had been wounded by AA on my own - I read it somewhere, and transcibed it. In fact, this topic sent me down to my garden shed again for the last hour - in
search of my transcriptions from AIR1 dealing with this casualty.

As soon as I saw it, without serial or pilot, I knew where it had come from - the "RFC/RAF Pilot and Observer Casualties, Indexed" - a large set of files that do what it says on the tin - a huge list of assorted casualties that appear to have been assembled either remote from or possibly even soon after the events, and which have dates, a name, a squadron, the type of casualty, and the merest of details. Occasionally they will have a serial. Some even have things like photos of captured crew attached - but the vast majority are simple one line entries. But these files really do pick up a lot of casualties that never make it on to a Casualty Report, and are thus extremely useful. Even more so when we are dealing with an observer from 11 Squadron - now there's a unit that there is very, very little left to look at in AIR1. I very much doubt anyone will ever turn up an SRB for December 1916 for 11 Squadron...

The entries in these files are not always 100% in alignment with other known facts, but they ARE obviously primary files, and so you pay attention to them.

Therefore in AIR1/967/204/5/1098 - Sept 16 - Feb 17 you find Lt WO Boger and it says "WIA" and then states "AA." That was the source for this entry. And here it is scrawled in pencil into a very aged bit of casualty listing that I found in my shed - sort of like a bit of TSTB DNA!

20Dec16.jpg

No reason to stop looking for more details, but that is where the AA mention in TSTB originated.

All the best.

Trevor

[Joe M]

Hi Trevor,
A Very Happy Christmas to you and all the best for the New Year. Many thanks for joining in and putting the wounding of Bill Boger to bed. So we can all agree that it was AA fire.
Looking forward to seeing you at the C&C AGM
Kindest Regards
Joe

[fetubi]

Joe, I very much look forward to seeing you too.
Trevor