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**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/royal-air-force-personnel/ Royal Air Force personnel]
*Imperial War Museums guide, published 2006, see Historical books online, below. Note that due to date of publication online sources are not included.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160705183112/http://www.bl.uk:80/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecordsfamilyhistory/occupations/royalairforce/raf.html Royal Air Force in India] British Library Help for Researchers, now an archived webpage.
*British Library Guide [https://www.bl.uk/britishlibrary/~/media/subjects%20images/government%20publications/pdfs/service-list-army-navy.pdf?la=en "Service Lists for the Army, Navy and Air Force"]. This is a download, which you will probably need to locate in your downloads folder. [https://archive.org/details/servicelistsarmynavyairfguide Archive.org version]. For details of online Lists, see the following items.
*Online [http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Anlsairforcelists&sort=-publicdate Air Force Lists] from the collection of the [http://archive.org/details/nationallibraryofscotland National Library of Scotland on Archive.org]
:The Lists were initially published on a monthly basis. Currently available (at April 2012) are
:*1945 January, April, July. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28+++1945%29+AND+title%3A%28Air+Force+List%29&sort=publicdate 1945 editions]
:*Also on Archive.org, but not from the National Library of Scotland collection,
::''The Air Force List'', a monthly publication. January editions for [https://archive.org/details/air-force-list-1928-jan/page/n7/mode/2up 1928; 1929; 1930; 1931]; [https://archive.org/details/air-force-list-1932-jan/page/n7/mode/2up 1932; 1933; 1934; 1935].
::[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Air+Force+List%22%29+AND+date%3A%5B1946-01-01+TO+2022-12-31%5D&sort=date Air Force List for 1949-1955, 1957, 1960-1965, 1991] Archive.org, 1991 edition Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. 1949 edition is the last quarterly edition, other editions are yearly editions.
:Note, it is unclear in what form these lists are held.
*'''Note''': Some details of the earlier Royal Flying Corps appeared in the'' Naval Lists'', for example [https://archive.org/stream/navylistjan1915grea#page/714/mode/1up January 1915 ''Naval List''] includes Royal Naval Air Service and Military Wing. At a certain point, the Military Wing details appear to have been dropped. For online Naval Lists, see [[Military periodicals online#Navy List|Military periodicals online - Navy Lists]]. Royal Flying Corps details also appear in the '''''Monthly''' Army List''s (but not the ''Quarterly Army List''s) from at least January 1915, see [[Military periodicals online#Monthly Army List|Military periodicals online - Monthly Army List]].
*Held on the pay website findmypast Findmypast (see [[Royal_Air_Force#External_links|External links]] section), are datasets in the category Armed forces & conflict, titled
**British Royal Air Force, Officers' Service Records 1912-1920 (sub category: Service Records)
**British Royal Air Force, Airmen's Service Records 1912-1939 (sub category Service Records). *:There is also a dataset on Ancestry (pay website) UK, Royal Air Force Airmen Records, 1918-1940 (category Military, released 2017/7), which appears to consist of a transcription on Ancestry, with images available on the associated fold3 (pay) website.*:[[FamilySearch]], a free website contains a dataset (introduced 2023/01) [https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2305506 United Kingdom, Royal Air Force Service Records, 1912-1945 Index records] consisting of Index records from the AIR 79 record series at The National Archives, Kew. Note: You must be signed in to FamilySearch to view the records. FamilySearch do not advise the exact records included, so it is possible that this is only a '''selection''' of records from AIR 79. (Images are available at [[FamilySearch Centres]] and FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries, in addition to images from the same series on Findmypast and fold3).
**British Women's Royal Air Force Service Records 1918-1920 (sub category: Service Records)
**British Royal Air Force, Gallantry Awards 1914-1919 (sub category: Medal rolls and honours}
*The Royal Air Force Museum, London, refer [[Royal Air Force#External links|External links]] below, holds some records including First World War Casualty Cards, which extend to 1928 and cover all theatres of operations. Casualty Cards records and Officers' Casualty Forms (the latter service records) have now been digitised, and are freely available.
*The website Royal Flying Corps, refer [[Royal Air Force#External links|External links]] below, includes a People Index, derived from a number of different sources.
* An article in [https://wwwarchive.da.mod.ukorg/details/casualties-honours-rfcmilw/publicationspage/categoryn1/133mode/2up ''RoyalFlying Corps Military Wing. Casualties and Honours during the war of 1914-Air-Force-Quarterly-July-1935 17'']. Compiled by Captain G. L. Campbell, RFA ... assisted by R. H. Blinkhorn 1917 Archive.org* An article in ''Royal Air Force Quarterly, July 1935''] recorded the name of every officer serving with the Royal Flying Corps in July 1914, just before the outbreak of war. Defence Academy (Previously, but seemingly no longer, available online). This series of Journals is available at the United Kingdom, located in Publications/WWIBritish Library from 1930 UIN: BLL01009228648 [http:/From our Archives/ Royal Flying Corpsexplore. dabl.moduk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01009228648 catalogue entry].uk
*The book ''A Contemptible Little Flying Corps : being a definitive and previously non-existent roll of those Warrant officers, N.C.O.'s and airmen who served in the Royal Flying Corps prior to the outbreak of the First World War'' by I. McInnes and J.V. Webb. 1991. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01010990717 and the National Archives Library [https://tna.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=49359 catalogue entry]. Also available in a reprint edition.<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/contemptible-little-flying-corps/ ''A Contemptible Little Flying Corps''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition]</ref> A listing with mini-biography of all the non-commissioned airmen, the men on the ground who kept the planes in the air and the guns firing, who enlisted in the RFC from 1912 to prior to the outbreak of war in August 1914. Includes those who later became pilots.
*Books by SD and DB Jarvis, originally published 1993, and available in reprint editions.
*[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205090524 Photograph: Pack mule at Miranshah Fort, laden with a wireless transmitter set from 20 Squadron RAF (interwar period)] Imperial War Museums
*[http://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/The-Bombing-of-Waziristan.html The Bombing of Waziristan (c 1924-1939)] by Graham Chandler ''Air & Space magazine'', July 2011
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170809020344/http://www.airpowerstudies.co.uk/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/apr14no3.pdf "“Good God, Sir, Are You Hurt?” The Realities and Perils of Operating over India’s Troublesome North-West Frontier"] by Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Roe ''Air Power Review Volume 14 Number 3 Autumn/Winter 2011'' Centre for Air Power Studies, Royal Air Force, pages 61-82 (computer file pages 72-93), archived.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140508060510/http://www.bcmh.org.uk/archive/conferences/2012AirGroundConingham.pdf "Air/Ground Cooperation between the RAF and the Indian Army in Waziristan 1936-1937"] by Simon Coningham, British Commission for Military History, Summer Conference 2012–Indian Armies, now archived.
*''Royal Air Force Historical Society Journal 48'' 2010. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rafmuseum.org.uk%2Fdocuments%2FResearch%2FRAF-Historical-Society-Journals/Journal_48_Seminar_the_ME_Mespot_Iraq_NW_Frontier_4_FTS.pdf html version], [http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/Research/RAF-Historical-Society-Journals/Journal_48_Seminar_the_ME_Mespot_Iraq_NW_Frontier_4_FTS.pdf pdf] rafmuseum.org.uk. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170228083017/http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcms/mediafiles/F1840A3A_5056_A318_A802860440CD93A9.pdf raf.mod.uk version], now archived. Includes
**"Only A Sideshow? The RFC And RAF In Mesopotamia 1914-1918" by Guy Warner pages 9-19 and "The RAF Armoured Car Companies In Iraq (Mostly) 1921-1947" by Dr Christopher Morris pages 20-38.
*[http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/7681 ''Inter-war, inter-service friction on the North-West frontier of India and its impact on the development and application of RAF doctrine''] by Andrew John Charles Walters 2018. University of Birmingham. Ph.D. Thesis. Air power’s potential was never fully exploited.
:[https://www.raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/centre-for-air-and-space-power-studies/documents1/vol-21-no-1-raf100-special-edition/ “RAF Inter-War Operations on the North-West Frontier”] by Wing Commander Dr Andrew Walters page 110 (digital page 112) ''Air Power Review'' Volume 21, No.1 Spring 2018. raf.mod.uk*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170514160852/http://www.au.af.mil/au/afri/aspj/airchronicles/apj/apj00/win00/corum.htm#corum "The Myth of Air Control: Reassessing the History"] by Dr. James S. Corum ''Aerospace Power Journal'' - Winter 2000. A historical look at air-control operations in the British Empire during the first half of the twentieth century. au.af.mil, archived.
*[http://www.xisquadronassociation.co.uk/history.html XI(F) Squadron Association]. No XI Squadron, RAF saw service on India’s Northwest frontier, from 1929, and in Burma from September 1943.
*Online [http://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF017525/00001 Photograph album of views from Iraq, India and Egypt 1932 – 1935] The images relating to India are pages [http://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF017525/00001/22j 20]- [http://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF017525/00001/40j 38]. Also one page, 31, [http://digital.wolfsonian.org/WOLF017527/00001/33j On the North West Frontier 1934] from another album. The photographs are thought to have been taken by T Fuller, who, while he was in India, was with 27 Squadron RAF, based at [[Kohat]]. Wolfsonian-FIU, (Miami Florida). To enlarge the images, click on "Page Turner".
*Medal Roll for India General Service Medal with clasps 1919-1935: RAF personnel. Surnames A-Brymer only. Includes the Squadrons present. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.naval-military-press.com%2Fpdf%2F1843420155.pdf html version] [http://www.naval-military-press.com/pdf/1843420155.pdf pdf version] naval-military-press.com. Retrieved 9 August 2014
*[http://www.crossandcockade.com Cross & Cockade International (CCI)] Journal of the First World War Aviation Historical Society. Cross & Cockade GB was formed in, and published from, 1970 as the British arm of ''Cross & Cockade'' in the USA, which was formed in 1960. The name changed to ''Cross & Cockade International'' when the US society ceased in 1986. In 1986 ''Cross & Cockade'' [USA] amalgamated with/became associated with [https://www.overthefront.com Over the Front], Journal of the League of WWI Aviation Historians, which holds the archives of ''Cross & Cockade'' [USA] 1960-1985. The British ''Journals'' are available at the British Library and Imperial War Museums. The IWM catalogue lists the USA ''Journals'' holdings as ''C&C'' Vol 1 1960- Vol 23 1982 (LBY E.J. 5156 but also see LBY E. 45573), ''OTF'' Vol 1 1986- Vol 11 1996 (LBY E.J. 64).
:[https://www.crossandcockade.com/blog.asp?display=200 262 ''CCI Journal'' Indexup to Vol. 50] and [https://www.crossandcockade.com/blog.asp?category=14 Recent Journals]. ''CCI Journal''s include a series of articles "Gazetteer of Flying Sites in the UK and Ireland 1912–1920", [https://www.crossandcockade.com/uploads/Vol1to49GazetteerofFlyingSitesIndex.pdf catalogue details for the ''Gazetteer'' articles], together with Index.
:CCI website includes a Forum.
:[http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/sargent_roland/cross_and_cockade.html ''C&C'' [USA<nowiki>]</nowiki> Index: Volumes 1-26 1960-1985] missing 5 quarterly issues. [http://toto.lib.unca.edu/findingaids/mss/sargent_roland/over_the_front.html ''Over the Front'' Index: Volumes 1-16 1986-2001] toto.lib.unca.edu. University of North Carolina at Asheville holds the volumes listed.
*[http://www.angelfire.com/mp/memorials/rafpesh.htm Royal Air Force 1922 - 27: Memorial in St. John's Church, Peshawar] and [http://www.angelfire.com/mp/memorials/rafmemsx.htm Royal Air Force Quetta Earthquake Memorial] 1935, both from [http://www.angelfire.com/mp/memorials/memindz1.htm Soldiers Memorials] by Stephen Lewis.
*[https://www.raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/centre-for-air-and-space-power-studies/publications/ Online editions of ''The Air and Space Power Review''], a publication of Royal Air Force Centre for Air and Space Power Studies (RAF CASPS) include some, especially Special Editions, relating to historical periods. raf.mod.uk
=== Individuals===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200424234706/https://www.cwgc.org/history-and-archives/cwgc-archive/efiles/welinkar Lieutenant Shri Krishna Chanda Welinkar] Indian, pilot 23 Squadron RAF died in action in France 27 June 1918 buried Hangard Communal Cemetery Extension, after originally being buried as a German officer. cwgc.org, archived webpage.
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/tracingyourfamil0000unse_t3r0 ''Tracing your family history: Royal Air Force''] compiled by Angela Wootton, edited by Sarah Patterson, 2nd edition 2006, published by Imperial War Museum, London ([https://archive.org/details/tracingyourfamil0000impe/mode/2up 1999 edition]). Archive.org Books to Borrow. Due to dates of publication, online sources are not covered.
*[https://archive.org/details/BritishARMYMEMORANDUMOnNAVALANDMILITARYAVIATION1912/mode/2up [British<nowiki>]</nowiki> ''Army. Memorandum On Naval And Military Aviation''] Presented to both Houses of Parliament HMSO 1912 Archive.org.
*For First World War online books, also see '''[[First World War#In the Air|First World War - In the Air]]''', and the various '''Fronts''' mention at the top of [[First World War#Historical books online 2|First World War - Historical books online]].
*[https://archive.org/details/Flight_International_Magazine?sort=titleSorter ''Flight International Magazine''] Collection at Archive.org, which is Searchable as a Collection. ''Flight International'' (or ''Flight'') is a global aerospace weekly publication produced in the UK. Founded in 1909 as "A Journal devoted to the Interests, Practice, and Progress of Aerial Locomotion and Transport". It is the world's oldest continuously published aviation news magazine. Contains pages relating to “Service Aviation”. Online volumes from 1909 to 1935 but missing January-June 1933. Also available for November 2014-January 2016, where the date is advised in the title, but "date of publication" has not be been entered to the catalogue system.:An Archive of online volumes to 2005 was previously available on the [https://www.flightglobal.com/flight-magazine-archive/135697.article FlightGlobal] website until the introduction of a new website format c 11 December 2019. It is stated that it will return, but is still not available (9 July 2022). An However [https://www.flightglobal.com/flight-international another page] in February 2023 says "Subscribers can also access our archived issues by clicking on the filing cabinet drawer symbol next to the search icon", so it appears that only subscribers can access the archive. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190330174218/https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/1909.html archived Archived version of FlightGlobal Archive] is available on the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive (Archive.org), but it is unclear how much of the content is accessible. This journal is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01012093219 1909-1961 and UIN: BLL01009542778 from 1962, and also at the Royal Air Force Museum.
*[https://archive.org/stream/warinairbeingsto06rale#page/268/mode/2up "War Operations In India"] page 268, ''War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force, Volume VI'' by H A Jones 1937 Archive.org. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on Official Documents''
*[https://archive.org/stream/australianflying00cutluoft#page/2/mode/2up Page 3] ''The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern Theatres of War, 1914-1918'' by F M Cutlack 1933 (first published 1923) ''The Official History of Australia in the War: Volume VIII'' Archive.org. The two Indian Army airmen, and mechanics from India, sent to Mesopotamia, and their poor aircraft.
:[https://archive.org/details/kings-reg-raf-1943/page/n1/mode/2up 1943], [https://archive.org/details/kings-reg-raf-1943/page/n9/mode/2up Contents]; [https://archive.org/details/kings-reg-raf-1944/page/n1/mode/2up 1944], [https://archive.org/details/kings-reg-raf-1944/page/n9/mode/2up Contents] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/PermanentOrganizationOfTheRoyalAirForce1919/mode/2up ''Permanent Organization of the Royal Air Force . Note by the Secretary of State for Air on a Scheme Outlined by the Chief of the Air Staff'' [H M Trenchard<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Presented to Parliament. HMSO 1919 Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022541314.0x000002 ''Pigeon Service Manual (Royal Air Force)''] Air Ministry publication HMSO 1919. British Library Digital Collection. [https://archive.org/details/pigeonservicemanual-raf/page/n3/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].*[httphttps://searchfind.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER207076 permalink/61SLV_INST/s6pvau/alma992070763607636 ''Trumpet calls. Royal Air Force. 1919''] State Library of Victoria. [https://archive.org/details/trumpetcalls-raf/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/medicalproblemso00mediuoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The medical problems of flying, including reports nos. 1-7 of the Air Medical Investigation Committee''] Report 53 of the Medical Research Council (Great Britain) HMSO 1920 Archive.org
*''Report on the Health of the Royal Air Force'' published by the Air Ministry
:[https://archive.org/details/report-health-raf-1921/page/n5/mode/2up 1920 Volume 1, to 1929]; [https://archive.org/details/report-health-raf-1930/page/n5/mode/2up 1930-1937]. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548436/page/n1/mode/2up ''Army Department Royal Air Force Instructions India: Jan-December 1920 with Index'']. Poor quality scanned text. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108695/page/n1/mode/2up ''Royal Air Force Aerodromes And Landing Grounds In India''] catalogued 1925. Archive.org. Only pages to digital page 58 are this title. Poor quality scanned text. There is an unrelated book from digital page 59.
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