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Sir Crispin Gaylord, Bt.
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Sunday 03 April 11 09:04 BST (UK) »
Now that I think about it, the "RAF base" was in fact an RNAS base, located in Johnstown Castle. I believe I once saw a photograph of an airship from there in some book or other.
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here we see the very thing
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Sir Crispin Gaylord, Bt.
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Quote from: nickr90 on Sunday 03 April 11 18:42 BST (UK)
here we see the very thing
Indeed. The photograph is from one of your many entertaining publications? However, I believe you may be mistaken in attributing the airship to our colonial cousins. There were two airbases in the vicinity of Wexford during the Great War: the US Naval Air Service base behind Ely House, but also our own boys, who had a Royal Naval Air Service airship base in Johnstown Castle. As the latter was an airship base, while the former was predominantly for seaplanes, the pictured airship is most probably British, i.e. our own.
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Sir Crispin Gaylord, Bt.
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