Royal field artillery kite balloons were the eyes of our guns in France

This material is held atCardiff University Archives / Prifysgol Caerdydd

Reference
- GB 1239 808/36
Dates of Creation
- 1914-1918
Language of Material
- English
Physical Description
- 1 document

Scope and Content

The observers were highly trained men, and when their balloons were shelled or attacked by enemy aircraft they were forced to make rapid descents in parachutes. The observers were always connected to their parachutes.

Archive Record|Table of contents

First World War photos and pamphlets808

The truth about German atrocities, 1915808/1

Types of the Russian cavalry808/2

The nose of a huge bombing aeroplane808/3

Telephone lorry exchange808/4

Visé in the hands of the Germans808/5

Machine gunners in action808/6

The British expeditionary force in Boulogne808/7

The Serbian army general staff on their retreat through Albania808/8

A street in Lille808/9

The destruction of a Polish village808/10

The Turkish defeat on the Suez Canal808/11

Kiel harbour808/12

Fighting for the lost province of Alsace808/13

Watching the battle in France808/14

At the bottom of the sea808/15

An infantry attack on the Somme808/16

The taking of Landrecies808/17

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Trench warfare in the Argonne808/19

The return of the Dove to the Ark808/20

How the wounded were conveyed to the hospital ships808/21

German prisoners in Warsaw808/22

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The great Serbian retreat808/24

The supremacy of the seas808/25

The terrible retreat from Serbia808/26

A British super-submarine808/27

Torpedo entering the water808/28

A Belgian outpost808/29

A landship bringing in under camouflage a 5.9 German naval gun808/30

Krupp’s808/31

H. M. auxiliary cruiser ‘Coronado’ camouflaged808/32

An incident in the retreat from Mons808/33

The effect of British shell fire808/34

On the way to the trenches808/35

Royal field artillery kite balloons were the eyes of our guns in France808/36

An airship escorting a convoy808/37

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The German occupation of Lille808/39

German prisoners entering the cages808/40

A small motor tractor getting a R.A.F. bombing machine into position808/41

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The village of --------808/46

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The German ‘flammenwerfer’808/50

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The blocking of Zeebrugge harbour808/59

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A park of British tanks808/61

An infantry attack across ‘no man’s land’808/62

The battle of the rivers808/63

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