210829 2nd Lt. Gerald James Mortimer Royal Flying Corps 35 Squadron My father, Gerald Mortimer, volunteered firstly for the Army and following training on Salisbury Plain put his hand up to go "Flying". He was shot down on 23rd March 1918 as an Observer in FE of 35 Squadron, he and the pilot crawled to a farmhouse (my father was wounded in the thigh) where a local lady gave them coffee, best smell of coffee my father always said! He was evacuated to military hospital in Rouen and then by steamship to Dover. I have his medical records but no log book; many of them were burnt by HMG in the 60's I gather. I would like to know if there is any more history of the RFC this day in 1918 and from which airstrip my father flew from; was it Chipilly?
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