CHRISTMAS CARD 1917 WW1 ROYAL NAVAL AIRSHIP STATION HOWDEN YORKSHIRE - RARE VGC For Sale
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CHRISTMAS CARD 1917 WW1 ROYAL NAVAL AIRSHIP STATION HOWDEN YORKSHIRE - RARE VGC:
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THIS IS A RARE ORIGINALWW1., 1917CHRISTMAS GREETING CARD FROM THE 'ROYAL NAVAL AIRSHIP STATION' (RNAS)Howden in East Yorkshire.
IN AN EXCEPTIONALLY WELL PRESERVED CONDITIONinside is printed- Although times have changed Christmas must always be the same and a kindly thought prove welcome. With Best Wishes From "Jinks" ( with C.D.V. )
From my research:- London Gazette 2nd January 1920. The undermentioned Cadets are granted honorary commissions as 2nd Lts., No. 205551 Jabez Ashdown 17th Feb 1919 (also known as 'Jinks') - I have also enclosed a 'Carte de Visite' of the gentleman in question taken at the USAStudios, Camden Town, which came with the card.
WITH THEINK STAMPEDDATE of 1917 on the front of the card
Card measures 4 x6.25 inches -
SOME INFO REGARDING THE NAVAL AIRSHIP STATIONS DURING WORLD WAR ONE :-
By the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, the RNAS had ninety-three aircraft, six airships, two balloons and seven hundred and twenty-seven personnel. The Navy maintained twelve airship stations around the coast of Britain from Longside, Aberdeenshire in the northeast to Anglesey in the west. On 1 August 1915 the Royal Naval Air Service officially came under the control of the Royal Navy.In addition to seaplanes, carrier borne aircraft, and other aircraft with a legitimate "naval" application the RNAS also maintained several crack fighter squadrons on the Western Front.
On 1 April 1918 the RNAS was merged with the RFC to form the RAF.
At the time of the merger, the Navy's air service had 55,066 officers and men, 2,949 aircraft, 103 airships and 126 coastal stations.
The RNAS squadrons were absorbed into the new structure, individual squadrons receiving new squadron numbers by effectively adding 200 to the number so No. 1 Squadron RNAS (a famous fighter squadron) became No. 201 Squadron RAF.
THE ROYAL NAVAL AIR STATION HOWDEN: - In 1915 the British Admiralty sent two Naval Officers to find a suitable site in the North East of England for an airship station which could be used to protect the shipping using the East Coast ports from the threat of attack by German U-boats. Howden Station was subsequently opened in 1916. The station housed its own pigeon loft, the carrier pigeons were carried , two per airship, so they could be released to carry messages back to the station in the event of the unreliable radios failing or the airship ditched. By 1919 the Howden RNAS station was to boast that it housed the largest airship hanger in the YOU FOR VIEWING
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