What is the actual problem?? At that age a boy’s shirt will fit perfectly well on a girl, so if the girl wants a friggin dinosaur or Einstein shirt, just buy the damn thing and don’t make a drama out of your life people.

I’m not sure why some people in society seem to want to have everyone de-sexed these days. Vive la difference.

From what the son said it was the first course to start after the formation of the RAF. All previous courses that were part way through were quite obviously RFC courses when they began. John Sinclair wrote the course name was Group 1 RAF. Not that it matters one bit, as the reason for posting was to demonstrate two more Japanese pilots trained by the RAF in WWI.

Two more Japanese citizens who learned to fly with the Royal Air Force in WWII were Takijiro Onishi and M. Sakamoto. They were on the first flying course held after the RAF formed in April 1918.

Onishi was later to become an Admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy, and was the “father of the kamikaze” units!

Here is a photo take in 1918 showing both Onishi and Sakamoto in their course group at Netheravon Aerodrome. Also in the photo is Ron Sinclair from New Zealand, I believe he’s the kiwi on the left, in the lemon squeezer hate fifth from left in the front row, and I think Onishi is the Japanese officer next to him. This photo came to me years ago as a laser copy from Ron’s son John Sinclair.

Are they likely to use any Hurricanes in this production? They were quite a predominant type in the Battle of France and there’s plenty of them about nowadays.

His grandson Luke Alkemade appeared in that UK TV series ‘Bomber Crew’ where the group of grandchildren of bomber crew members trained up and flew in the Canadian Lancaster. I know they spoke about the incident in that, but maybe you can trace Luke?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0447731/