All I can say is "hahahahahahahahah"

Look at the pole....Gee I guess Mannock was born in Aldershot!

Keith,

Sew lettuce sea hear, where is this "pole" that are you referring us to look at to determine Mick's birthplace? A flag pole, fishing pole, North Pole, South Pole, a pole vault, a polecat, or maybe even an inhabitant of Poland?

[Billy_Bishop]

Actually, you mean "look at the POLL".

Yup, I guess he was born in England after all.

VBR,

Al

All,
It is merely people's opinion ... NOT CONCLUSIVE PROOF. We could ask Mick, but OBVIOUSLY he's not talking! It is shown on his pilots license that he claimed Cork, Ireland ... that's good enough for me! If you really want to get technical he was born in a HOUSE! The country of origin is irrelevant. Jeez, let the poor b-stard rest in peace!
VBR,
Jim
Keith...Antiqus temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur ad necem.

Al... Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.

Oop's sorry about the POLE...hehehe

Jim, yes I know about the picture of the license....I was just being a smart aleck to those who voted for England!

Keith,

Keith,
And what I said to you in Latin was "In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept crags." : )
VBR,
Jim

Hombres: Longstreet in his Canvas Falcons gives the birthplace of the Mick as Aldershot, the British Army base, as in Kipling's Gunga Din: ..."When you're given penny brawls and Aldershot it." Se he was born on government property and not in any town. His daddy was a corporal in that army, and the daddy moved around quite a bit. Longstreet says that the Mick was not Irish, but a pure British Buldog, but there's no accounting for nicknames...But the question rremains: what place did the birth certificate give? As they say in Oxford: Das ist mir ein Wurst. Billy H/10/21/99.

Mannock was born at Preston Barracks, Brighton on 24 May 1887. You can look up his birth certificate. He lived in England, Scotland and India, but NOT Ireland.
For an authentic biography:
http:/www.sparetacus.schoolnet.co.uk/fwwmannock.htm
So, as Arch Whitehouse's Phineas Pinkham would have said, "Hawwwww."

Another example of the outstanding (outstandingly bad, that is) research that went into "The Canvas Falcons", the first book to reveal the secret that the SE5 actually entered RFC service in 1918, a full year later than those rascally British had previously claimed!

[Ira_Silverman]

Matt:

Given the source, I would guess the SE.5 that entered service in 1918 was the SE.5C version, the one with CANVAS wing covering

VBR,

Ira