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Our February 2018 Newsletter
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The February 2018 Newsletter from Ox & Bucks branch of the WFA. Comment Future Meetings and Events Soldiers Remembered: 2nd Lieutenant Sydney Batte, London Regiment Military Balloons in the Great War
'Roasting a sausage': Balloons, their crews, and those who shot them down
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Although observation balloons had been used as early as 1794 the static nature of the conflict in the First World War provided the backdrop for the balloons to come into their own and play an important part in the war. The idiom ‘the balloon’s going up’ derives from the raising of a balloon signalling the beginning of an artillery barrage, guided b…
Ian Castle presents 'The Forgotten Blitz and the Defeat of the Zeppelins
Ian is a well respected on the subject of Balloons, Ballooning and Zeppelins. He looks at the Bitz, its effect on moral and how the menace of the Zeppelin Airships was dealt with
‘Observation Balloons on the Western Front – an "over view" ' by Vernon Creek
About this talk: Many groups of combatants could claim to be the unsung heroes of the Great War. But the men flying observation balloons must have a particularly strong claim. Operating at 1200-1800 meters above the front lines, the crew had nothing between their feet and the ground but a centimetre or two of wicker basket. The crews (or 'balloonat…