Ep.220 – Recruiting and training the RFC

Doctoral candidate David Spruce talks to me about his research into Recruiting and Training the Royal Flying Corps during the Great War.

David Spruce looks at the recruitment and training methods used by the fledgling Royal Flying Corps. David gained an MA in British History and the First World War from the Wolverhampton University. His dissertation, ‘The Development of British Air Power on the Western Front to the end of 1915: An analysis of the technological, procedural, and tactical developments of the Royal Flying Corps’ was a 2020 winner of the Royal Air Force Museum Masters Prize. His dissertation will be published in Cross & Cockade in 2021.

He is now pursuing a PhD on the Royal Flying Corps.