Walter Oswald "Toby" Watt photographs, 1914-1916.

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Walter Oswald "Toby" Watt photographs, 1914-1916.

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Photograph album describing Oswald "Toby" Watt's time in the French Aéronautique Militaire. Photos include Louis Noel, Jacques Pierron, Roland Garros and other pilots and observers. There are extensive photos of equipment and locations visited by Watt.

.25 Linear feet (126 photographs).

The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7284871

The University of Tulsa, McFarlin Library

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France

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In 1782 the Continental Congress directed Benjamin Franklin, the American minister to France, to negotiate a convention concerning the exchange of consuls. The convention was signed by Franklin and the French foreign minister, the comte de Vergennes, on 29 July 1784, but rejected by Congress because it did not adhere to the scheme Congress had established. Congress directed Franklin's successor, Thomas Jefferson, to renegotiate, and on 14 November 1788 he and Vergennes's successor, the comte de ...

Noel, Louis.

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Watt, Oswald, 1878-1921.

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Walter Oswald Watt, usually called Oswald, although sometimes called Toby or Ossie was an Australian aviator in the early part of the 20th century. Living in Britain when the First World War broke out, he volunteered his services and his plane to the French, becoming an ordinary soldier in the Aviation Militaire section of the French Foreign Legion, although he was informally acknowledged by his former rank in the New South Wales Scottish Rifles. He was awarded the Légion d'Honneur and the Croi...

Garros, Roland, 1888-1918

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