The Imperial Aircraft Flotilla : the Worldwide Fundraising Campaign for the British Flying Services in the First World War.

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A great wave of fundraising patriotic associations followed in the wake of Great Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 4 August 1914, at home but also right across the empire. The most successful public campaign of all was launched in London at the beginning of 1915. Known as the Imperial...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hall, Margaret
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: La Vergne : Ibidem Press, 2017.
Temas:
History.
Histoire.
history (discipline)
HISTORY / Military / World War I.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface and Acknowledgments; Notes; Abbreviations; Part Iâ#x80;#x94;How it began; Chapter 1: Introductionâ#x80;#x94;gifts for the Royal Navy, and the Patriotic League; Chapter 2: And for the Army, Vickers Gunbus Dominica, and a kite balloon â#x80;Œ; Chapter 3: The Imperial Aircraft Flotilla Takes Off, 1915â#x80;#x93;1916; Part IIâ#x80;#x94;Case Studies: The campaignâ#x80;#x99;s spread and development; Chapter 4: Press and personal networks: Canada and Newfoundland; Chapter 5: Sultan Seyyid Khalifa of Zanzibar and the Royal Naval Air Service.
  • Chapter 6: Tropical Sugarcane Producers: Pacific, Indian Ocean, and CaribbeanChapter 7: Eastern outpostsâ#x80;#x94;bankers and philanthropists of Hong Kong; Chapter 8: The Malaya Air Fleet Fundâ#x80;#x94;the Straits Settlements and Malay states; Chapter 9: West Africa, and most particularly Gold Coast, and Hugh Clifford; Chapter 10: The Rhodesiasâ#x80;#x94;friends in high places, a Grey area?; Chapter 11: The Basuto nation, the British sovereign, and 25 Sopwith Camels; Chapter 12: Swaziland, Major Miller, the Union of South Africa, and Jan Smuts; Chapter 13: The Indian Empire: The subâ#x80;#x90;continent and Burma.
  • Chapter 14: Birds of Ceylonâ#x80;#x94;a very strange campaign indeedChapter 15: Furthest ripples of the Great War reach Abyssinia and Siam; Chapter 16: Big and small donors: The Shanghai Race Club and Argentine Britons; Chapter 17: Charles Alma Baker and the Australian Air Squadrons Fund; Part IIIâ#x80;#x94;How it ended, and epilogue; Chapter 18: New Zealand and Britainâ#x80;#x99;s aeroplane gifts to the Dominions; Chapter 19: Cast list: minorities, colonials, â#x80;#x98;subject peoplesâ#x80;#x99; and native rulers; Chapter 20: The orchestration of supportâ#x80;#x94;the British Empireâ#x80;#x99;s last curtain call?; Annexes.
  • Annex I: The Overseas ClubAnnex II: The Patriotic League of Britons Overseas; Annex III: The Imperial Air Fleet Committee; Annex IV: Procedural correspondence and instructions; Endnotes; Bibliography Iâ#x80;#x94;Primary Sources:; Bibliography IIâ#x80;#x94;Secondary Sources:; Index.

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