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450 A Fine Great War ‘1918 Salonika Front’ Ace’s D.F.C. Group of Eight to Flying Officer F.D. ‘On Line’ Travers, Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, An Extremely Aggressive Pilot Who ‘Zoomed Up to My Left and Met a DV Coming Head On for My Machine... From About 200 Yards. E.A. Continued to Come Straight for My Machine As I Did for His Nose On... I Fired about 100 Rounds from Both Guns Up To Point Blank Range... My Machine Just Managed to Avoid Collision. I Then Turned Sharply Round and Observed the DV Going Down in a Steep Nose Dive, With Smoke Pouring’. He Later Accounted for 2 Albatros Scouts in the Space of 5 Minutes. In Between the Wars Travers Became a Pioneer of Civil Aviation, and in 1943, As a Master Pilot, He Piloted the ‘Golden Hind’ During the First Crossing of the Indian Ocean from West to East a) Distinguished Flying Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued b) British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oak Leaves (Lieut. F.D. Travers. R.A.F.), minor official correction to BWM c) 1939-1945 Star d) Africa Star e) Defence and War Medals, with King’s Commendation for Valuable Service in the Air, silver Badge f) France, Republic, Croix de Guerre, reverse dated ‘1914-1918’, avec Palmes, traces of verdigris to Africa Star, otherwise good very fine, with the following related material - The recipient’s two Imperial Airways and BOAC pilot’s bullion cap badges - Several original photographs of recipient in uniform - A quantity of letters from the recipient’s widow during the 1980s - A large amount of copied research including his Log Books, 1926-66, the originals being held along with other documents at the R.A.F. Musuem Hendon (lot) £3,500-4,500 orders, deCoratioNs, CampaigN medaLs aNd miLitaria 450 WWW.spiNK.Com D.F.C. London Gazette 3.12.1918 Lieut. Frederick Dudley Travers (Herts. Yeo) ‘A gallant and able officer who has displayed on many occasions boldness in attack, never hesitating to engage the enemy as opportunity occurs. On June 1st he, in company with two other pilots, attacked a hostile formation of twelve machines, four of which were shot down and the remainder driven off.’ (Salonika) M.I.D. London Gazette 7.6.1918 Lieut. F.D. Travers, R.A.F. (Salonika) France, Croix de Guerre avec Palmes London Gazette 8.2.1919 Lieut Frederick Dudley Travers, D.F.C. ‘For valuable services rendered in connection with the war.’ Flying Officer Frederick Dudley ‘On Line’ Travers, D.F.C. (1897-1970), born Yorkshire; educated at the John Lyon School, Harrow; enlisted as ‘No. 4031 Private’, Hertfordshire Yeomanry, 7.6.1915; commissioned Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion Hertfordshire Yeomanry, 1.1.1916; sailed with the regiment for Mesopotamia, April 1916, arriving in Basra on the 27th May; as part of the Indian Expeditionary Force “D” took part in the relief of Kut-al- Amara; whilst serving in Mesopotamia was attached Royal Flying Corps, April 1917; commissioned Lieutenant, R.F.C., 1.7.1917; after training at No. 3 School of Military Aeronautics, Egypt, was posted as a Pilot to 47 Squadron (B.E. 12’s), Salonika, Macedonia, 16.10.1917; the squadron was occupied with a variety of tasks including reconnaissance, bombing and air fighting; he recorded his first victory with the squadron whilst escorting three aircraft on photoreconnaissance, west of Lake Doiran, 19.12.1917, ‘One single seater scout DIII with one top gun on upper plane and believed one synchronised gun. Hostile Scout attacked from the sun my starboard planes with a burst from his upper plane gun and the shots missed my machine altogether. The Hun was then underneath me and I manoeuvred so that my three top Lewis guns were on to him when I gave him a burst of about 15 rounds. Unfortunately two of my guns stopped but I got underneath him to fire my vertical gun and this also stopped... The Hun then manoeuvred while I was rectifying the stoppages and had another burst at me missing again. By now my top guns were alright and he being underneath I dived on him and let him have my three guns which worked alright. I observed the tracer ammunition all round and into the machine and then the Hun went down in a spin several thousand feet when I lost sight of him’ (Combat Report
November 22, 2012 - LoNdoN refers); he took on another Albatros Scout over Stojakovo, 3.1.1918, however the combat proved inconclusive; whilst flying a S.E. 5b, 13.2.1918, ‘I observed an E.A. coming out of the sun towards me and so turned my machine’s nose towards the E.A. As the E.A. was about 1,000ft. above my machine I again turned and followed it climbing in the endeavour to a good target and reach the E.A.’s height which I did and opened with a burst from the overhead Lewis gun. The E.A.’s observer then fired at my machine so I then again opened fire with both Lewis and Vickers guns. The shots judging by the tracers appeared to be hitting the E.A. until all the double drum was finished and the Vickers gun stopped as a result of a cross-feed. As I was changing my drums and rectifying the stoppage I observed the E.A. to go down in a nose dive towards his lines’; on 27.2.1918, ‘Whilst escorting a bomb raid on Platenwald with Capt. Bell also on an S.E. 5a I observed Capt. Bell diving on a two-seater which appeared to be driven down. A D3 scout then dived on me firing but did not harm. I then joined up with Capt. Bell to attack the E.A.’s Four D3’s had then climbed above our machines and two of them attacked each of us with no affect. The E.A.’s broke off the combat for a few minutes and so Capt. Bell and I circled round to get an opportunity of engaging the E.A. favourably. I then observed two of the E.A. scouts above us and one D3 below me, so dived on the single D3 following him down as he dived firing my two guns into his tail until he spun and went down out of my sight. One of the E.A.’s that was above then dived on my tail with Capt. Bell firing on his tail and another of the D3’s diving on Capt. Bell’s tail. We then broke off the combat as all the E.A.’s returned towards their aerodrome and we had to escort our bombers over our lines’; Travers did not always get it all his own way, 13.3.1918, ‘Whilst escorting a formation on the Cestovo Flying Officer F.D. Travers, being presented with his Croix de Guerre 227 Bomb Raid observed 5 DIIIs above in the sun. When the formation turned round for home the E.A’s attacked our S.E.s from above with dives at our machines. Owing to engine trouble was compelled to spin out of the E.A.’s fire. One E.A. then singled out my machine and stuck on my tail firing. Then did a series of sharp turns and spins to get away from E.A. until Capt. Bell came to my assistance and drove E.A. off a little. Then turned and faced E.A. firing my Vickers until E.A. turned home and broke off combat.’ 150 Squadron - Carry On With the Good Work Travers was posted to the newly formed 150 (Fighter) Squadron, Salonika, April 1918; he continued to fly similar escort missions in the same areas, and in May 1918, he encountered four enemy scouts with painted red cowlings, ‘I observed 4 E.A. getting height over Hudova Aerodrome. As the reconnaissance returned to our lines the E.A. followed at a distance and did not engage. When the recco. machine was across our lines I turned about to meet the E.A... When I got within range they appeared to be D5 scouts. I fired a burst at about 150yards at an E.A. which was slightly below my level whereupon 2 of the E.A. above dived at me and I had to break away turning S. E.A. then patrolled together up and down just N. of the lines gradually getting over Lake Doiran when I turned into a D5 just below firing several bursts and as another D5 above me dived firing at my machine I was forced to break off the combat. One E.A. left the formation for its aerodrome. The E.A. and myself fired periodical bursts, at each other at about 200 yards range just S. of Lake Doiran. At 0745 E.A. turned N. and returned to aerodrome. As my ammunition was getting short I returned to the aerodrome’; Travers continued with his aggressive approach and it continued to get results, 15.5.1918, ‘On returning from
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