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Records
*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.
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