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from R Bradleys Mesopotamia album 1917 Baghdad.
It was presumably discovered when the British captured Baghdad in 1917… I know it is a Turkish aircrew but the aircraft looks like a Martinside so could it be a captured British plane painted in Turkish colours? It was with another Turkish photo showing the hanging of 3 Armenian prisoners ( a bit gruesome to put up on here !)
By: Biffo 34 - 11th October 2014 at 11:00
The handwritten caption in the album says “Turkish pilots with machine at Baghdad” so there is not much information from there. However over on the Great war forum under a thread on RNAS in Mesopotamia there is a posting listing early Australian flight squadron 30 planes and their fates…. It shows one Martinsyde S1 as having been abandoned at Kut in april 1916 so maybe this is that machine in Turkish colours.
By: NEEMA - 11th October 2014 at 06:32
Interesting, as it is evidence of one being captured. I just wonder if this is the machine that Jack Bruce refers to in ‘ British Aeroplanes 14 -18 ‘ as having “met an unknown fate”.
By: RAB - 11th October 2014 at 00:23
Pretty sure it is a Martinsyde S.I. A couple were in the region.
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October 10, 2014 at 11:27 pm