This photo is from an album by the Royal Aero Club, which made these photos when a pupil passed his brevet at flying school. The albums are now held by the RAF Museum at Hendon and have been digitised by ancestry.co.uk.
The commanding officer of No.7 Squadron Royal Flying Corps in 1918 was Captain Bertine Entwisle Sutton main page. By the time of Word War II he had become Air Marshal Sir Bertine Entwisle Sutton and there is a small photo of him at this later date on wikipedia.
I am grateful for Jean-Luc Michel for finding this 1917 photo of Capt. Sutton:-
This photo is from an album by the Royal Aero Club, which made these photos when a pupil passed his brevet at flying school. The albums are now held by the RAF Museum at Hendon and have been digitised by ancestry.co.uk.
Peter Facey, Winchester, England
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