British Aerial Photography and Photographic Interpretation on the Western Front - Pt 24

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Bibliography

Primary Sources

The UK National Archives

AIR 1/7/6/98/20	Capt. Campbell's notes on aerial photography, (1915 July)
AIR 1/7/6/98/20	2nd Lt V.F. Bryce, Photographic Officer, 1st Brigade, BEF. Report. (1 June 1916)
AIR 1/123/15/40/144	Photography in the R.F.C. – Reports on Progress (31 Dec 1915 – 27 Apr 1916
AIR 1/687/21/20/School of Photo	Documents on School of Photography, Farnborough, R.A.F., (1915-1926)
AIR 1/724/91/2	Photography in the R.A.F., paper by Lt.Col. Moore-Brabazon., (1914-1918)
AIR 1/724/91/6/1	History of air photography, (1914-1918)
AIR 1/725/97/3	Branch Intelligence Sections with Army Wings and Corps Squadrons. (1917 Feb. - 1918 Sept.)
AIR 1/889/204/5/656	Supply of cameras: R.F.C. in the Field, (1917 July - Dec.)
AIR 1/2393/240/2	Record by S/L. W. S. Douglas of air photography, (1915 Jan. - Mar.)
AIR 1/2395/255/1	3 Squadron notes on aerial photography, (1914 Dec. - 1915 Feb.)
AIR 1/2397/267/7	The technical aspects of British Aerial Photography during the war, 1914-1918 by Charles W. Gamble.
AIR 10/200	Album of Photographs taken by the Royal Flying Corps, (1917)
AIR 10/320	Notes on the Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs (February 1918)
AIR 20/6466	PERSONAL (Code 57): Treatise on the study and interpretation of aerial photographs Oct 1916 by Lt E Pepin presented by F C Happold, (October 1916)
AIR 29/727	No. 1 School of Photography, Farnborough, (1912-1944 May)
AIR 34	Air Ministry: Central Interpretation Unit, predecessors and related bodies: Reports and Photographs, (1916-1952)
AIR 34/735	Some Notes on the Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs (December 1916)
AIR 41/6	Photographic Reconnaissance, 1914 - Apr. 1941 Vol 1, (1914 - Apr. 1941)
WO 95/155	First Army Methods for the Attack, (13 April 1915)
WO 157/114	Battle of Messines: Intelligence Arrangements, (1917 May)
WO 158/962	Intelligence Corps: organisation and establishment, (1917 Aug. 1919 Jan.)
WO 158/983	Notes on the French system of intelligence during the battle of the Somme, (September 1916).

Imperial War Museum

Stationary Services Publications
SS98/4	Artillery Notes Number 4, Artillery in Offensive Operations, April 1916
SS135	Instructions for the Training of Divisions for Offensive Action, December 1916. The Division in Attack, November 1918.
SS139/4	Artillery in Offensive Operations, March 1917
SS139/3	Artillery Notes Number 3, "Counter-Battery Work," February 1918
SS139/7	Artillery Notes Number 7, "Artillery in Defensive Operations," February 1918
SS152	Instructions for the Training of the British Armies in France (June 1917)
SS550	Notes on the Interpretation of Aeroplane Photographs, (March 1917)
IWM Private Papers
IWM Catalogue Number 12244 P215 & 66/321/3 & PP/MCR/C15	Private Papers of T. McK Hughes
IWM Catalogue Number 9793 PP/MCR/107	Private Papers of S. S. Butler
IWM Catalogue Number 12230 PP/MCR/155	Private Papers of H. H. Hemming

The Australian War Memorial

AWM4, Sub-class 1/30	Intelligence, Headquarters, 1st ANZAC Corps (Intelligence Summaries: Feb 1916 – May 1917) AWM4-1-30-3 to AWM4-1-30-16
AWM4, Sub-class 1/33	Intelligence, Headquarters 2nd ANZAC Corps (Intelligence Summaries: Apr 1916 – Dec 1917) AWM4-1-33-3 to AWM4-1-33-20
AWM4, Sub-class 1/36	Intelligence, Headquarters Australian Corps (Intelligence Summaries: Jan – Jul 1918) AWM4-1-36-1 to AWM4-1-36-5
AWM4, Sub-class 8/6	No 3 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps (Dec 1916 – Nov 1918) AWM4-8-6-1 to AWM4-8-6-23
AWM4,Sub-class 16/5	Australian Corps Topographical Section (Feb 1917 – Nov 1918) AWM4-16-5-1 to AWM4-16-5-22
AWM – Honors and Awards	Gerald Trevredyn Tait, (25 December 1917), [Accessed online 10 October 2009.

Books

General Staff War Office	Field Service Regulations – Part 1 Operations, (London: HMSO, 1912)
Haig, Douglas (Eds Sheffield, Gary and Bourne, John)	Douglas Haig War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918 (London, Phoenix, 2006)
War Department Washington D.C.	Maps and Artillery Boards – Reprinted from pamphlet issued by the British General Staff December, 1916, (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1917)

Contemporary Material

Baring, Maurice	R.F.C. H.Q. 1914-1918 (London, Bell & Sons, 1920)
Brooke-Popham, H.R.	‘The Air Force’, RUSI Journal, 65 (Feb./Nov. 1920)
Campbell, C.D.M.	Letter Campbell to General Brancker ‘Photography at Home’, (16 March 1916), Medmenham Collection DFG7891
Flight Magazine ‘Editorial Comment’	‘Gun versus Aeroplane’, Flight Magazine, 7 December 1912, pp. 1127-1132
Flight Magazine	‘Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing) at Netheravon.  The Concentration Camp’, Flight Magazine’, 26 June 1914, pp. 670-676
Flight Magazine	‘Royal Flying Corps (Military Wing) at Netheravon.  The Concentration Camp’, Flight Magazine’, 3 July 1914, pp. 698-700
Laws, F.C.V.	Looking Back - Paper read by the Author at the Photogrammetric Society's Meeting on 18th November, 1958, The Photogrammetric Record, Volume 3 Issue 13, (1959).
Lambert, C.J.	Letter to Constance Babingdon-Smith (23 December 1957), Medmenham Collection DFG 3410
Lloyd, Alan	Letter to Constance Babingdon-Smith; 3 December 1957, The Medmenham Club Newsletter, Autumn 2009, p. 48
Macleod, M. N.	History of the Fourth Field Survey Battalion R.E., 26 June 1919.
Moore-Brabazon, J.T.C.	Letter to Squadron Leader Mayle, School of Photography RAF, (25 November 1959), Medmenham Collection DFG 1471
Sykes, F.H.	‘Further Developments of Military Aviation’ Flight Magazine, 14 February 1914, pp. 170-173
Thompson, Vivien	‘Stereo-Photo Surveying’, The Geographical Journal, Vol. 31, No. 5 (May, 1908), pp. 534-549
War Office, Geographical Section, General Staff	Report on Survey on the Western Front 1914 – 1918 (HM Stationary Office, October 1920).
Winterbotham, H.S.L.	Survey on the Western Front, Provisional Report, Maps GHQ 20 December 1918.
Winterbotham, H.S.L.	‘British Survey on the Western Front’, The Geographical Journal, Vol. 53, No. 4 (Apr., 1919), pp. 253-271

Secondary Sources

Books

Ash, Eric	Sir Frederick Sykes and the Air Revolution 1912-1918 (London, Frank Cass, 1999)
Ash, Eric	‘Air Power Leadership: A Study of Sykes and Trenchard’, in Peter W. Gray & Sebastian Cox (eds), Air Power Leadership Theory and Practice (London, The Stationary Office, 2002)
Air Historical Branch	A Short History of the Royal Air Force (Air Ministry, AP 125, 1936)
Bacon, J.M.	The Dominion of the Air, (Project Gutenberg E-book, 1903).
Barker, Ralph	The Royal Flying Corps in France from Mons to the Somme (London, Constable, 1994)
Barker, Ralph	The Royal Flying Corps in France from Bloody April 1917 to Final Victory (London, Constable, 1995)
Beckett, Ian F. W.	The Great War 1914 – 1918 (Harlow, Pearson Education Ltd, 2007)
Bidwell, Shelford & Graham, Dominick	Fire-Power the British Army Weapons & Theories of War 1904 – 1945 (Barnsley, Pen & Sword, 2004)
Boyle, Andrew	Trenchard (London, Collins, 1962)
Brabazon, J. T. C.	The Brabazon Story (London, William Heinemann, 1956)
Charteris, John	At G.H.Q. (London, Cassell & Co, 1931)
Chasseaud, Peter	Artillery’s Astrologers – A History of British Survey and Mapping on the Western Front 1914 – 1918 (Lewes, Mapbooks, 1999)
Clayton, Anthony	Forearmed – A History of the Intelligence Corps (London, Brassey, 1993)
Cooper, Malcolm	The Birth of Independent Air Power (London, Allen & Unwin, 1986)
Crawford, O.G.S.	Said and Done (London, Phoenix House, 1955)
Cutlack, F.M.	Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918 - Volume VIII, – The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, 1914–1918 (11th edition, 1941).
Dockrill, Michael & French, David	Strategy and Intelligence, British Policy During the First World War (Continuum International, 1996)
Eaton, Hamish B.	APIS Soldiers with Stereo: An Account of Army Air Photographic Interpretation, (The Intelligence Corps Museum, 1978)
Finnegan, Terrence J.	Shooting the Front – Allied Aerial Reconnaissance and Photographic Interpretation on the Western Front – World War One (Washington, NDIC Press, 2006)
Griffith, Paddy	Battle Tactics of the Western Front (London, Yale University Press, 1994)
Hahn, J. E.	The Intelligence Service within the Canadian Corps 1914 – 1918 (Toronto, Macmillan, 1930)
Hammond, Bryn	Cambrai 1917 (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008)
Hart, Peter	Somme Success (Barnsley, Pen & Sword, 2001)
Hart, Peter	Bloody April (London, Cassell, 2005)
Hart, Peter	Aces Falling (London, Phoenix, 2008)
Hart, Peter	1918 A Very British Victory (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008)
Ives, Herbert	Airplane Photography (Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1920)
Jones, H. A.	The War in the Air Volume 2 (Oxford, Clarenden Press, 1928)
Jones, H. A.	The War in the Air Volume 3 (Oxford, Clarenden Press, 1931)
Jones, H. A.	The War in the Air Volume 4 (Oxford, Clarenden Press, 1934)
Jordan, David	‘The Battle for the Skies: Sir Hugh Trenchard as Commander of the Royal Flying Corps’, in Matthew Hughes & Matthew Seligmann (eds), Leadership in Conflict 1914-1918 (Barnsley, Pen & Sword, 2000)
Jordan, David & Sheffield, Gary	‘The British Army and Air Power’, in Peter W. Gray (ed), British Air Power (London, The Stationary Office, 2003)
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Law, Francis	A Man at Arms (London, Collins, 1983)
Levine, Joshua	On a Wing and a Prayer (London, Collins, 2008)
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Mead, Peter	The Eye in the Air (London, HMSO, 1983)
Messenger, Charles	The Day We Won The War (London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008)
Moore-Brabazon, J.T.C.	The Brabazon Story, (London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1956)
Morrow, John H.	The Great War in the Air (Washington, Smithsonian, 1993)
Nesbit, Roy Conyers	Eyes of the RAF – A History of Photo-Reconnaissance (Godalming, Bramley, 1997)
Neillands, Robin	The Old Contemptibles – The British Expeditionary Force, 1914 (London, John Murray, 2004)
Neillands, Robin	The Death of Glory – The Western Front 1915 (London, John Murray, 2007)
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Journals and Periodicals

Broad, C.N.F.	‘The Development of Artillery Tactics 1914-1918 Pt 1’, American Field Artillery Journal (Sep-Oct 1922).
Broad, C.N.F.	‘The Development of Artillery Tactics 1914-1918 Pt 2’, American Field Artillery Journal (Nov-Dec 1922).
Broad, C.N.F.	‘Artillery Intelligence and Counter Battery Work Pt 1’, Journal of the Royal Artillery, 49 (4) 1922.
Broad, C.N.F.	‘Artillery Intelligence and Counter Battery Work Pt 2’, Journal of the Royal Artillery, 49 (5) 1923.
Campbell, James B.	‘Origins of Aerial Photographic Interpretation, U.S. Army, 1916 - 1918’, Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, Vol. 74, No 1, January 2008, pp. 77-93.
Dye, Peter	‘France and the Development of British Military Aviation’, Air Power Review, 12, (1), (Spring 2009)
Little, Richard	‘A Short History of Surveillance and Target Acquisition Artillery’, Canadian Army Journal, Vol. 11.3 Fall 2008
Liddle, Peter	‘Aspects of the Employment of the British Air Arm, 1914-1918’, RUSI Journal, 131 (4), (December 1986)
Palazzo, Albert P.	‘The British Army's Counter-Battery Staff Office and Control of the Enemy in World War I’, Journal of Military History, 63:1 (1999:Jan.)
Price, Alfred	‘Air Power taken to its Limits and Beyond.  The Battle of Amiens’, Air Power Review, 4, (4), (Winter 2001)
Shepherd G. J. V.	‘The Interpretation of Aerial Photographs’ RUSI Journal, 70 (Feb./Nov. 1925)
Sutton, B.E.	‘Some Aspects of the Work of the Royal Air Force with the B.E.F. in 1918’ RUSI Journal, 67 (Feb./Nov. 1922)

Websites

Baker, Simon	The Lawrence Captive Airship Over San Francisco in 1906 and 1908.
Fahsi, Ahmed	Air Photo Interpretation and Photogrammetry - Lecture 6:  Geometry of Aerial Photography.
Hannavy, John	Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, Volume 1.
Leggat, Robert	A History of Photography from its beginnings till the 1920s.
Smith, Neil	History of 3 Squadron, AFC, RAAF.
Misc:
Frederick Scott Archer 1813-1857. Inventor of the Wet Collodion Process.
HISTORY OF PHOTOGRAMMETRY, Center for Photogrammetric Training.
Joseph Wilson Swan.
Kite Aerial Photography.
Royal Engineers Museum Website.

Electronic Media

Mapping the Front; The Western Front Association	Ypres – British Mapping 1914 – 1918. DVD
Official History of the Great War 1914-1918	Military Operations France and Belgium. Naval & Military Press, DVD, Release date August 2010.

Illustrations

Figure 1 - Balloon School Camp at Lydd in Kent 1886.	[Accessed online 15 July 2011 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Squadron_ headquarters._An_air_photograph_by_Major_ Elsdale_in_1886_of_the_Balloon_School_camp_ at_Lydd_in_Kent.jpg]
Figure 2 - Boer War - British Camp Balloon Base (date unknown).	Medmenham Collection: Permission granted by Mr Mike Mockford.
Figure 3 - The Watson Air Camera 1913.	F. C. V. Laws, Looking Back - Paper read by the Author at the Photogrammetric Society's Meeting on 18th November, 1958, The Photogrammetric Record, Volume 3 Issue 13, (1959). p. 28.
Figure 4 - Reconnaissance target (4 wagons) 15 Jun 14, 2,000 feet.	Flightglobal/Archive, Flight Magazine, 3 Jul 1914. p. 699 [Accessed online 20 May 2011 http://www.flightglobal.com/]
Figure 5 - An ‘A’ type camera being handed to an observer of a FB5.	Medmenham Collection: Permission granted by Mr Mike Mockford.
Figure 6 - Neuve Chapelle 1915.	H. A. Jones, The War in the Air Volume 2 (Oxford, Clarenden Press, 1928) between pp. 90-91.
Figure 8 - Extract from 1:10,000 scale trench map produced in 1916.	[Accessed online 17 August 2011 http://www.greatwarcollection.nl/Html/pozieres.html]
Figure 11 - Vertical annotated proof print.	Mapping the Front; The Western Front Association Ypres – British Mapping 1914 – 1918. DVD
Figure 12 - Aerial photograph derived sketch map.	[Accessed online 2 September 2011 http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/case-study/body-snatchers-trench-raid-roclincourt] http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/ogilby-lt-col-rjl-map-27-september-1916
Figure 13 - Vimy Ridge trench model 1917.	[Accessed online 3 September 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Model_reproduction _of_German_lines.jpg]