Norman Clifford profile drawing - Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a, C1948
Greyscale profile drawing of a Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a with the serial number C1948 produced by renowned Australian aviation artist, Norman Clifford.
The biplane has a tri-coloured roundel, a white 'W' on the fuselage and the serial number on the tail, in front of three vertical stripes. Although the profile is in black and white, these would have been red, white and blue.
The drawing is signed in thick black pen by the artist.
Norman Clifford was writing a book about the history of the Australian Flying Corps. which this drawing may have been intended to feature in.
C1948 was a Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a built by Air Navigation Co., Addlestone, Surrey. It was assigned to No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps.
Norman Clifford is one of Australia's foremost aviation artists. His works are held in the R.A.A.F. Museum at Point Cook, the Australian War Memorial and in many other public and private collections.
Details
Details
"W"
"C1948"
Australia
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Other items from Recollections of War
- Photograph of Reginald George David Francis, Australian Flying Corps
- Portrait of Raymond Francis Galloway, Australian Flying Corps
- Photograph of Raymond Francis Galloway A.F.C. in boxkite
- Signed portrait of pioneer aviator, Claude Grahame- White
- The Royal Aero Club of New South Wales timber shield
- 'Heroes of the Flying Corps' by Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper
- 'With the Airmen' by Claude Grahame-White and Harry Harper
- 'The Boys' Book of Aeroplanes' by T. O'Brien Hubbard and Charles C. Turner
- Alfred Meakin semi-porcelain lidded trinket box - Royal Flying Corps
- Australian Aero Club, W.A. Section enamel badge
- Australian Aero Club enamel badge
- Armidale Aero Club fundraising pin, 1948
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