Primary Documents and Official Accounts:
G.W.L. Nicholson, Official History of the Canadian Army in the First World War: Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914-1919. (Ottawa, 1964) (Available online as a PDF.) http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/oh-ho/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=1&BfId=22 See Chapter 16: Outside the Corps. Canadians in the Air Services p.503-507. Internet Resources: Library and Archives Canada - Oral Histories of the First World War: Veterans 1914-1918 (Contains several interviews with transcripts and photos.) http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/first-world-war/interviews/025015-1300-e.html Directorate of History and Heritage - A Rattle of Pebbles: The First World War Diaries of Two Canadian Airmen (Book available in PDF format.) http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/his/gh-hg/detail-eng.asp?BfBookLang=3&BfId=10 |
Historians’ Perspectives:
Legion Magazine: Canadian Military History in Perspective Series Eyes in the Skies: Air Force, Part 2 March 1, 2004 by Hugh A. Halliday https://legionmagazine.com/en/2004/03/air-force/ Legion Magazine: Canada & the Victoria Cross Series High Heroes of the Great War: Part 7 of 18 January 1, 2005 by Arthur Bishop https://legionmagazine.com/en/2005/01/high-heroes-of-the-great-war/ Books and Monographs: Lee Kennett. The First Air War: 1914-1918. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. Lieutenant-Colonel D.J. Goodspeed. The Armed Forces of Canada 1867-1967: A Centennial History. Ottawa: Queen’s printer, 1967, Chapter VII. S.F. Wise. Canadian Airmen and the First World War: The Royal Canadian Air Force Official History, volume I. Toronto; University of Toronto Press, 1980. William Arthur Bishop. The Courage of the Early Morning: A Biography of Billy Bishop, The Great Ace of World War I. Markham: Thomas Allen Publishers, 2011. |