Papers of Sir Ross Smith and Sir Keith Smith [manuscript].

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Papers of Sir Ross Smith and Sir Keith Smith [manuscript].

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Papers of Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith largely concerned with the inaugural England to Australia flight 1919 and comprising family photographs; photographs of Mutooroo Station; World War 1 photographs; photographs relating to the Egypt-India flight 1918-1919 and England-Australia flight 1919-1920; Vickers Vimy photographs; photographs of China, Hong Kong and Thursday Island; correspondence of Ross Smith including to his mother Jessie Smith 1914-1919; diary of Ross Smith 1916-1918; log book of Keith Smith 1917-1921; schedule of landings made on Ross Smith's Egypt-India flight; correspondence and timetables in preparation for the England-Australia flight 1919 and related papers to 1950; Vickers Vimy G. EAOU logbooks 1919-1920; flight notes, transit documents and report to Vickers Limited on the England -Australia flight by Ross Smith; press cuttings; notebook kept by Sir Keith Smith 1933-1955, the final entry by Lady (Anita) Smith; memorabilia relating to the deaths of Sir Ross Smith 1922 and Sir Keith Smith 1955; papers relating to planning of the proposed world flight cancelled on the death of Sir Ross Smith 1922; typescript of The Battle of Romani by Ross Smith 1916; duplicate photographs and maps used in The skies remember by A. Grenfell Price 1969; proofs of memorial letters by Hudson Fysh 1919 and Australia's contribution to the development of international civil aviation by D. G. Anderson 1960; and manuscript of The pioneer flight by Madge Terry, together with realia including Ross Smith's World War I Webley and Scott pistol, satchels of Sir Keith Smith, ribbons and wings. Manuscript, typescript and photographic prints.

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Smith, Keith Macpherson Sir, 1890-1955.

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Sir Keith Smith, KBE was born in Adelaide 20/12/1890 and spent his childhood at Mutooroo Station, where his father, Andrew Smith, was manager. He was educated at Queen's School North Adelaide and Warriston School, Scotland. He enlisted in July 1917 in the Royal Flying Corps and received his commission as Lieutenant at Christchurch, Oxford. He accompanied his brother the late Capt. Sir Ross Smith on the 28 days' flight by aeroplane from England to Australia Nov.-Dec. 1919 and was created KBE in r...

Smith, Ross Macpherson Sir, 1892-1922.

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Sir Ross Smith was a military and pioneer aviator. His brother Sir Keith Smith was a military aviation instructor, pioneer aviator, Vickers Australian representative, vice chairman of Commonwealth Pacific Airlines, and a director of Qantas and Tasman Airways. From the description of Papers of Sir Ross Smith and Sir Keith Smith [manuscript]. (Libraries Australia). WorldCat record id: 225819061 Australian aviator. Pilotted the crew which won the Australian Government's £10,000...