R.F.C. ??

[forester]

If he was an officer, there are a couple of possibles in AIR 76/273, depending on how accurate the birth dates are:

http://www.rootschat.com/links/08c5/

Phil

[Borley Manor]

Hi again,
     
      This is totally intriguing, the Kerr you have referred to, a Sapper. R.W. Kerr, could be the man, if he was born in 1893. I have a Robert William M. Kerr, born in Birkenhead. Now if my memory serves me well, that is in Lancashire 

      The plot thickens as we speak.
 
    Surely, if he was an officer, then birth in 1893 would hardly make him an expert field tactician, or would it  ? No, I do not think he was an officer, but, who knows, nothing surprises me about this family anymore....

Borley Manor.

[forester]

If it's RW Kerr, it's his being in the RAF for only a couple of weeks before looping the loop that worries me the most. 

Phil

[Borley Manor]

You can almost hear the screams from the instructor over the mists of time....
Perhaps Heath Robinson had the theory right in his drawings....

[Romilly]

Speaking of Heath Robinson...

My late Uncle was an Observer Officer in the RFC in WW1. Observer Officers sat next to the Pilot, & carried a rifle to shoot at the enemy...on their laps they had a bag of bombs...to throw out at said enemy!!!

Hi tech indeed

Romilly

[Borley Manor]

Hello again,

    Stone me, how high tech was that, lobbing missiles by hand, now we have drone planes flying around foreign climes, controlled by someone in America, sitting at a desk, all this in one hundred years of know how....
    Although, it isn't exactly accepted these days as mind numbingly innovative is it ?? we are so immune to progress these days, a great shame really, yet, your grandparents, and beyond, must have been astonished every day by how wonderful inventions can be, flight, the motorcar, trains, bicycles, electricity and so on.....These days nothing is really new is it, just smaller...I wonder what they do with all the space they are saving ?

Borley Manor.

[ainslie]

QUOTE
"Birkenhead. Now if my memory serves me well, that is in Lancashire"

Not quite - it is in historical Cheshire, but now in 'Wirral'.  Most of it visible from Liverpool!

[Mr. MIGKY]

Hi is a link to the great war forum where i post a request for help on what records can be found for the RFC.
Migky 

Click for the RFC link

[Borley Manor]

QUOTE
"Birkenhead. Now if my memory serves me well, that is in Lancashire"

Not quite - it is in historical Cheshire, but now in 'Wirral'.  Most of it visible from Liverpool!

Now that is interesting as well, I have a couple getting married at Altricham, that is in Cheshire as it says so .....