The REAL story, (not the DM travesty recorded here) of the loss of HMS Glorious is one of those episodes that deserve greater remembrance. The circumstances in which Scharnhorst and Gneisenau intercepted Glorious were not such as to reflect well upon the Royal Navy and the heavy loss of life together with that of a priceless aircraft carrier were completely unnecessary.
Cross and his men accomplished a difficult feat in order to preserve their aircraft for the future and, sadly, in the end their achievement was completely pointless.

Michael Bond at age 91.
No more Paddington!

Presumably, the little cylindrical object on the aft fuselage is the RAT?

It’s either a Westland Wallace or a Westland Wapiti ( I think)……I would lean towards Wapiti but I am not too clear on the finer points.

Point is, as per the OP……too many to mention!
Doesn’t help, I reckon, that so many of those ’20s and ’30s types were produced in such small numbers and served for a fraction of the time we would expect a modern aircraft to; today twenty years plus is the norm, back then it was very much the exception. And nobody wanted to preserve aeroplanes!

Apparently 25 Squadron?

As per http://www.aviationphotocompany.com/p538738128/h4D0F9381#h4d0f9381

As far as I can tell they were at Hawkinge but this is far from a racing cert with my dodgy research skills……..confirmation anybody?

1879 and the Tay Bridge disaster kills all those on board a train when the fatally flawed structure collapses.