This relates to the Frank Bailey Collection held in Dallas (of all places) The staff are helpful and pretty quick. 246 pages are costing me $43 + $24 carriage. I would suggest that this is cheaper than the PRO. It contains squadron record books and combat reports by squadron, avaition rosters (UK) and files on some of the Jasta's. Worth a look.

http://www.utdallas.edu/library/collection...1pdf/Bailey.pdf

Regards

Simon

It looks like an interesting collection. Owing to theft, the run of combat reports at the UK National Archives are not complete. It is good to know that there is an alternative collection.

I recall during my annual visits to the then PRO at Kew in the 1990s when I was researching my namesake Uncle, Lt Patrick Wright ANDERSON, 8 Black Watch, 10 Black Watch , & observer in 18 Sqn RFC /RAF wounded in action France 27 June 1918 died of wounds back home in Arbroath Angus Scotland on 2 Nov 1921 the Combat reports for some actions had been torn out and I recall sold with other documents to overseas museums etc . He was arrested and appeared in a court of Law in England and banned from the National Archives .

Patrick W Anderson

These folks were extremely helpful. They responded within hours to an e-mail, looked through their files, told me what they had speific to the individual I was researching, offered to copy just the pages where he was mentioned, or the entire file. I opted for the entire file because their rate ($0.30 per page) was so reasonable.

Hi Gents

Do you still have the exact emailaddress you contacted them at please?
Thx
l4h

Really sorry for the delay in replying - have been away for a few days. Name you want is: Thomas Allan, Curator of Special Collections and his e mail is: tja032000@utdallas.edu

Hope that helps,

Simon