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100	1		_aHall, Margaret.
245	1	4	_aThe Imperial Aircraft Flotilla : _bThe Worldwide Fundraising Campaign for the British Flying Services in the First World War.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aLa Vergne : _bIbidem Press, _c2017.
264		4	_c©2017.
300			_a1 online resource (413 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- 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.
505	8		_aAnnex IV: Procedural correspondence and instructions -- Endnotes -- Bibliography I-Primary Sources: -- Bibliography II-Secondary Sources: -- Index.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1914-1918-Civilian relief-Great Britain.
650		0	_aGreat Britain-History-20th century.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aHall, Margaret _tThe Imperial Aircraft Flotilla _dLa Vergne : Ibidem Press,c2017
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5276168 _zClick to View
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