CornwalI In The First World War

Here's an image from 1918, courtesy of Malcolm McCarthy. On the hard standing at Royal Naval Air Station Newlyn, an airman tends to a Short 184 seaplane. Between the floats of the aircraft is mounted a depth charge. In the background is a canvas hangar, standard issue of the day.
 
Newlyn was one of four Cornish centres of aero activity during the First World War; the others were at Bude, Mullion and Padstow.  A station was also built at Tresco on the Isles of Scilly.

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