Charles Kingsford Smith and Those Magnificent Men (102 page)
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Authors: Peter Fitzsimons
32
‘Like a Bird: Successful Aerial Flights by Houdini the “Handcuff King”.’,
Daily Telegraph
, 19 March 1910.
33
ibid.
34
Kalush and Sloman, op. cit., p. 248.
35
ibid.
36
Blackmore, L.K.,
Hawker: A Biography of Harry Hawker
, Airlife, Shrewsbury, 1993, p. 43.
37
ibid.
38
‘Like a Bird: Successful Aerial Flights by Houdini the “Handcuff King”.’,
Daily Telegraph
, 19 March 1910.
39
Finlay, Peter, ‘Australia’s First Aviator’,
Aero Australia
, Issue No 14, 2007.
40
As quoted in Kalush and Sloman, op. cit., p. 252.
41
ibid., p. 253.
42
Joy, William,
The Aviators
, Shakespeare Head Press, Sydney, 1971, p. 23.
43
Target, Simon (producer),
Rewind
, ABC Television, Sydney, 2004. See also: Brogden, Stanley,
The History of Australian Aviation
, Hawthorne Press, Melbourne, 1960, p. 17.
44
Ellison, Norman,
Flying Matilda: Early Days in Australian Aviation
, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1957, p. 199.
45
‘Smithy Among Schoolmates’,
Sydney Morning Herald
, 18 June 1928.
46
Wright, Milton, diaries, 30 May 1912, Box 116, Library of Congress, Washington.
47
Blackmore, op. cit., p. 51.
48
Fokker, op. cit., p. 59.
49
Ellison, op. cit., p. 13.
50
Sealby, Winifred Kingsford,
Recollections: Personal and Scenic; Our Dumb Friends
, (Australian Library Collections, Record ID 5583222), 1951, p. 36.
51
Ellison, op. cit., p. 201.
Chapter Three: War!
1
Fysh, Sir Hudson,
Qantas Rising: The Autobiography of the Flying Fysh
, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1966, p. 27.
2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A11873900
3
Fokker, Anthony,
Flying Dutchman
, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1938, p. 121.
4
‘The Empire’s Call’,
Argus
, 1 August 1914.
5
Sydney Morning Herald
, 6 August 1914.
6
Sealby, Winifred Kingsford, letter to Norman Ellison, sent from Ladstock, Saratoga, New South Wales, 20 January 1956, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
7
Ellison, Norman, manuscript of
Flying Matilda: Early Days in Australian Aviation
(Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1957), National Library of Australia, Canberra, p. 19.
8
Thomas, Lowell,
Sir Hubert Wilkins: His World of Adventure
, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1961, p. 86.
9
Grierson, John,
Sir Hubert Wilkins: Enigma of Exploration
, Robert Hale, London, 1960, p. 54.
10
Thomas, op. cit., p. 86.
11
Nasht, Simon,
The Last Explorer: Hubert Wilkins
—
Australia’s Unknown Hero
, Hachette Livre Australia/Hodder, Sydney, 2007, p. 34.
12
Garros, Roland,
Memoires présentés par Jacques Quellennec
, Hachette, Paris, 1966, p. 253f.
13
Schurmacher, Emile C.,
Richthofen: The Red Baron
, Paperback Library, New York, 1971, p. 30.
14
Barker, Ralph,
A Brief History of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I
, Constable & Robinson, London, 2002, p. 43.
15
Ellison,
Flying Matilda
, op. cit., p. 204.
16
Schurmacher, op. cit., p. 93.
17
Margetts, Captain I.S., diary, 25 April 1915, 1 DRL/0478, Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
18
Bean, C.E.W.,
The Story of Anzac,
Vol. I, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1924.
19
Fokker, op. cit., p. 130.
20
Egyptian Gazette
, 18 December 1914.
21
Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to parents sent from Egypt, date unknown, ca. July 1915, Ellison Collection National Library of Australia, Canberra.
22
Hawker, Muriel,
H.G. Hawker, Airman: His Life and Work
, Hutchinson & Co., London, 1922, p. 182.
23
Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to parents, sent from Cairo, 27 July 1915, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
24
Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to parents, sent from Cairo, 8 August 1915, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra. Quoted in Ellison,
Flying Matilda
, op. cit., p. 206.
25
ibid.
26
Omek, Tolga,
Gallipoli
, Ekip Film, Turkey, 2005.
Chapter Four: In the Trenches
1
Young, Margaret and Gammage, Bill (eds),
Hail and Farewell: Letters From Two Brothers Killed in France in 1916
, Kangaroo Press, Sydney, 1995, p. 145.
2
Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to parents, sent from Cairo, 8 August 1915, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
3
Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to parents, sent from Gallipoli, 6 October 1915, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
4
Carlyon, Les,
Gallipoli
, Macmillan, Sydney, 2001 p. 293.
5
Ellison, Norman,
Flying Matilda: Early Days in Australian Aviation,
Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1957, p. 210.
6
Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to parents, sent from Cairo, 25 January 1916, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra. Quoted in Ellison, op. cit., p. 211.
7
ibid.
8
Hare, Paul R.,
Aeroplanes of the Royal Aircraft Factory
, Crowood Press, Marlborough, 1999, p. 34.
9
Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to parents, sent from France, 19 July 1916, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
10
McMullin, Ross,
Pompey, Elliott
, Scribe Publications, Melbourne, 2002, p. 220.
11
Horne, Donald,
In Search of Billy Hughes
, Macmillan, Melbourne, 1979, p. 70.
12
Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to parents, sent from France, 11 September 1916, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra.
13
Ellison op. cit., p. 213.
14
Cutlack, F.M.,
Official Histories: First World War, Volume VIII, The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, 1914–1918
, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1941, p. 421.
15
Ellison, Norman,
Daredevils of the Skies,
Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1941, p. 57.
16
Kingsford Smith, Sir Charles,
My Flying Life: An Authentic Biography Prepared under the Personal Supervision of and from the Diaries and Papers of the Late Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith
, Andrew Melrose, London, 1937, p. 14.
17
Ellison,
Flying Matilda
, op. cit., p. 215.
18
ibid., p. 216.
19
ibid., p. 217.
20
ibid., p. 219.
21
Gammage, Bill,
The Broken Years: Australian Soldiers in the Great War
, Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1974, p. 25.
22
That actual moniker, however, was not applied until after the war was over.
23
Taylor, Sir Gordon,
Sopwith Scout 7309
, Cassell, London, 1968, p. 53.
24
Morton, Fred,
‘Smithy’: Sir Charles Kingsford Smith—The World’s Greatest Aviator
, New Image Publications, Melbourne, 1984, p. 3.
25
Stannage, John,
Smithy
, Oxford University Press, London, 1950, pp. 2–4.
26
Kingsford Smith, Charles, letter to parents, sent from Denham, January 1917, Ellison Collection, National Library of Australia, Canberra. Quoted in Ellison,
Flying Matilda
, op. cit., p. 222.
27
Mackenzie, Roy D.,
Solo: The Bert Hinkler Story
, Ure Smith, Sydney, 1979, p. 6.
28
Kilduff, Peter,
Richthofen: Beyond the Legend of the Red Baron
, Arms and Armour Press, London, 1999, p. 69.
29
Lindsay, Alan (director),
Air Australia
, Village Roadshow Entertainment, Sydney, 2007.
30
Morton, op. cit., p. 2.
31
Stannage, John,
High Adventure
, MacDonald, Christchurch, 1944, p. 78f.
32
Schurmacher, Emile C.,
Richthofen: The Red Baron
, Paperback Library, New York, 1971, p. 86.
Chapter Five: Aces at Dawn…
1
Haynes, Jim and Dellit, Jillian,
Great Australian Aviation Stories: Characters, Pioneers, Triumphs, Tragedies and Near Misses
, ABC Books, Sydney, 2006, p. 65.
2
Richthofen, Manfred von,
The Red Fighter Pilot: The Autobiography of the Red Baron
, Red and Black Publishers, Florida, 2007, p. 56.