Portuguese Pilots

During WWI, several Portuguese pilots fought in French squadrons,like Spa 65, 124, 79, 158, 278, 263, 204, 218. Some of them had their aircraft painted with a red and green band on the fuselage.
I am doing a research on this issue and any information would be wellcome.
Thanks in advance.

Regards

Rui Alves

What? i didn´t knew there were portuguese pilots in World War one? please tell me more about it! Were are you looking for that information?
Cumprimentos Joao

[rammjaeger]

Hi Rui,

maybe Christophe Cony knows more about that? Did you try to contact him or another French?

Well Portugal entered in WW I and sent a group of pilots wich were trained in France and UK and at first it was planned to form a portuguese squadron but end up in several french squadrons.
Well I published an article on a portuguese magazine "História" and I have collected information from many sources, like books museums, etc.
Comprimentos

Rui Alves

Hello Hannes!
How are you?
Well not yet, only the French SHAA in Vincennes, they send me 2 pics of a portuguese pilot but no answers to my questions wich I understand because that would take some long time for research but I hope to go there one day and make a personal search on that.
Do you know the e-mail from Mr.Cristopher Cony?

Best Regards

Rui Alves

[rammjaeger]

Christophe Cony had in early 98 the address

[email protected]

but he was also posting or answering in one of the last weeks/month here - maybe you can find his last post in an older thread.

VBR

Hannes

I do not know about the Army pilots, but here are the Portuguese Navy officers who got the French Navy wings.
Rank Name Date Nr
PT de Sacadura Freire Cabral Arturo 00/00/1916 ?
ST Azeredo de Vesconcelos Eduardo 29/06/1917 ?
ST Trindade Adolpho 20/07/1917 265
PT Pinto des Mesquita Antonio 22/05/1918 561
PT Moreira de Carvalho Alexandro 07/06/1918 587
GM Vaz de Azevedo Silva, José 21/12/1918 730
ST Xavier Alberto 09/01/1919 750

I am not sure if the spellings are correct..

Sorry, but what did just Portuguese expect to earn in this war ??

Thanks Hannes!

Thanks Lucien!
The names are correct and one of them Cabral made a long flight in 1922 crossing the South Atlantic from Lisboa to Rio de Janeiro in a Fairey IIID.
In fact one of the names were new to me.