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

Intro -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Part I-How it began -- Chapter 1: Introduction-gifts for the Royal Navy, and the Patriotic League -- Chapter 2: And for the Army, Vickers Gunbus Dominica, and a kite balloon … -- Chapter 3: The Imperial Aircraft Flotilla Takes Off, 1915-1916 -- Part II-Case Studies: The campaign'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 Caribbean -- Chapter 7: Eastern outposts-bankers and philanthropists of Hong Kong -- Chapter 8: The Malaya Air Fleet Fund-the Straits Settlements and Malay states -- Chapter 9: West Africa, and most particularly Gold Coast, and Hugh Clifford -- Chapter 10: The Rhodesias-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 sub‐continent and Burma -- Chapter 14: Birds of Ceylon-a very strange campaign indeed -- Chapter 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 III-How it ended, and epilogue -- Chapter 18: New Zealand and Britain's aeroplane gifts to the Dominions -- Chapter 19: Cast list: minorities, colonials, 'subject peoples' and native rulers -- Chapter 20: The orchestration of support-the British Empire's last curtain call? -- Annexes -- Annex I: The Overseas Club -- Annex II: The Patriotic League of Britons Overseas -- Annex III: The Imperial Air Fleet Committee.

Annex IV: Procedural correspondence and instructions -- Endnotes -- Bibliography I-Primary Sources: -- Bibliography II-Secondary Sources: -- Index.

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