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Donald Stevenson's Autograph Album of Aviators                         Page 2

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Sydney Pickles. He was chief test pilot for Short Brothers, the Blackburn Aeroplane Co, and the Fairey Aviation Co. A fascinating history.
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Pierre Verrier appears to have been well known but not too much information.
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Hamel again. On right - A wonderful poem written after Hamel's death.

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L A Strange - a very famous airman. 
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Not able to decipher - but beautiful signatures.
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Lieutenant Lawrence Arthur Wingfield MC DFC (1898-1989) served as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) during the First World War. He was captured on 1 July 1916 and was a prisoner of war until October 1917 when he successfully escaped from Strohen Camp. As a result of his escape he worked as a lecturer on escape techniques for MI9 during the Second World War. 
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Pickles was the 'Survivor of a terrible smash' More information here.
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Winnie Buller appears to have been a Lady Test Pilot. 
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Not sure of autograph. Is that B C Hucks in the photo?
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No information discovered.
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Here is ​Lieut Lawrence Arthur Wingfield MC DFC when he was a prisoner.
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I believe this is Samuel Brealy. And this to be Frank Courtney! He appears to have written a book - 'Flight Path' by Frank T Courtney?
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I cannot discover anything definite about these.
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J M R Cripps gets a mention somewhere in this article!
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- But this may help! Marcus D Manton?​ He could certainly fly!
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Nothing known of these aviators
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Julius Nardine (?) and I wonder who she was!
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Louis Noel was very famous. He also instructed at the Grahame-White school!
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Gustav Hamel. A famous early aviator who disappeared while flying over the English Channel
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​Marcel Brindejonc des Moulinais was particularly known for long distance flights.
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Manton
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The pilot is Tone Hippolyte Bayetto(?)
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Wilfred Parke. He died within a month of this signature. Famous as the first person to recover an aircraft from a spin by deliberate action. The Spin was then known as 'Parke's Dive'.
I'm unable to decipher the other signature.
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