708 Captain Eric Dixon Dent Royal Flying Corps Observation Corps In 1971 I bought a house in Yelverton, Devon. In the loft I found literally hundreds of old photographic slides. these were a mixture of pictures of a Dent family dating from the 1890's and WW1 shots. It would seem that the second son, Eric Dixon Dent, served in the Observation Corps of the Flying Corps in WW1. Thus the collection contains annotated reconnaissance shots; interior and exterior shots of aircraft; views of aircraft engines and other educational slides. There are also one or two photos taken with a hand held camera of aircraft in flight. Eric Dixon Dent continued to serve with the RAF and, I conjecture, finished his career at the Meteorological Office at RAF Mountbatten in Plymouth. Because of its situation in Yelverton and because I have seen a photograph of him in a Swordfish,I would further conjecture that he served at RAF Harrowbarrow during WW11 but I have not been able to confirm this. There is also a single photograph of his elder brother William in the uniform of Major in The Durham Light Infantry (I think). Finally there a few slides taken on a family visit to Ripon Volunteer Camp in July 1907. The slides were found in very military looking boxes where they still remain. I would be interested to learn of any information that anyone have on Captain Dent
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