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* Royal Air Force 
 
Service Records For men who served just in the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service the service records are in Army and Navy records respectively. RAF officers' records between 1918 and the middle of the 1920s contain details of:

  • Units served with
  • Promotions
  • Comments from superior officers on flying abilities
  • Details of next of kin
These records are available on microfilm at the National Archives, although alternate pages have been filmed upside down. Similar, but correctly filmed, records exist for other ranks. More information can be found at RAF, RFC & RNAS: First World War, 1914-18: Service Records.

Operation record books Record daily activities, including flights undertaken. Their survival is a bit patchy and what they contain varies considerably from squadron to squadron. Most start in 1936.

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