Old RAF poster going on show
Recruiting notice evokes echoes of the past
By John Thomson

Aberdeen Press and Journal
Published: 26/09/2009

AN OLD poster from the pioneering days of flight could soon go on public display.

It was discovered more than 20 years ago in a former police station attic at Macduff by retired Grampian Police officer George Stevenson and a colleague, Ron McKenzie.

The pair now want the black and white poster to go on public display and hope the RAF Banff Association will put it on show at the Boyndie Airfield World War II exhibition at Boyndie Centre.

Mr Stevenson, of Buchan Street, Macduff, and Mr McKenzie, of Christie Crescent, Stonehaven, both served at Banff and Macduff during their years in the force.

Mr Stevenson said: “We found the poster at the old Gellymill Street station.

“It kicked around my garage before a local photographer restored it and it was later framed.

“Going by the uniform of the serviceman and the R34 airship, it must be from about World War I and it’s obviously an advertisement for the RAF.”

The R34 airship’s first flight was in 1919 and that year it became the first aircraft to complete an east to west Atlantic crossing from Britain to America.

RAF Banff Association secretary Colin Jeffrey said: “We would certainly be interested in looking at the poster with a view to putting it on display.

“Although it dates from about World War I and we are interested in World War II, we could perhaps give it a safe place.”

“Although it dates from about World War I and we are interested in World War II, we could perhaps give it a safe place.”

Sounds like they are doing them a grudging favour - I think I would tell them to forget it..

mICK

R34 was designed in WWI, here are some more details of her:
http://www.aht.ndirect.co.uk/airships/r34/index.html

Definitely, i'd find somewhere/someone that actually appreciates it

The RAF Museum, IWM, my study ... to name but a few!