Rhys Davids 56 Sqdn crash site - What do we know ?

Regulus · 28 August 2008, 01:24 PM

Having started the discussion on Voss his crash site, let's do the same for his opponent, who crashed on the 27th October 1917.
5 miles SW of Roeselare (Roulers)
Polterrjeberg (which does not exist) There is a Pottelberg near Korktrijk (Courtrai)
Polterrjebrug (does not exist either)

Where should we really look ?

Regulus · 28 August 2008, 03:06 PM

We have of course : Polderhoek, Zonnebeke (Geluveld) en Poezelhoek (same area)

Regulus · 28 August 2008, 03:33 PM

And, did anyone ever take a look at these documents :

letters from the War Office about Arthur's effects, 1918, with a list of items returned by the Germans, 1920;

which are in a university library ?

tcrean7828 · 28 August 2008, 09:44 PM

Mate,
That he crashed approximately 5 mi from where

Werner Voss crashed.

ttfn

tcrean7828

tom

Regulus · 29 August 2008, 09:25 AM

You know what I find very curious, that they know that he crashed within 5 miles from Voss, but that nobody really knows where. So one can ask himself how much we can believe of this story...

ONEALM · 29 August 2008, 09:50 AM

I believe there is a photo on Alex Revell's

HitEB (I don't have the book here at work to verify this...) that he tentatively identified as Rhys-David's crashed SE-5.

I can't recall if he ID's the crash site.

tcrean7828 · 29 August 2008, 11:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ONEALM

I believe there is a photo on Alex Revell's

HitEB (I don't have the book here at work to verify this...) that he tentatively identified as Rhys-David's crashed SE-5.

I can't recall if he ID's the crash site.

Mates,
Correct, the photo has been identified and was a historian concesis that the aircraft in the photo belonged to Rhys Davids and that is him among the wreckage. I believe that Alex Revell, Alex Imire, and other historians finally came to that conclusion to settle the matter once and for all.

ttfn

tcrean7828

tom