A German L.V.G. CV 2 seater reconnaissance aircraft brought down by Australian Flying Corps ...

Place Middle East: Ottoman Empire, Palestine
Accession Number B03566
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Place made Ottoman Empire: Palestine
Date made August 1918
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

A German L.V.G. CV 2 seater reconnaissance aircraft brought down by Australian Flying Corps Officers Brown and Finlay. In front of the aircraft are Major S W Addison (standing) and Captain A R Brown, DFC (seated). The aircraft was brought back to Australia post war but was one of a number of aircraft accidentally destroyed by fire at the Australian War Museum in Melbourne in the 1920s (See also B02265).