Fighter Pilot Training, Crail, 1918

Jack Wilson takes an Avro for a spin an nearly comes a cropper. Born in Shotley Bridge, Benfieldside, County Durham, August 20th 1896. Office boy at the North East Brewery from August 1910. Machine Gunner on the Somme and Paschendale April 1916 to December 1917. Trainee RFC then RAF Fighter Pilot January 1918 to early 1919.