by Guy Warner
Wigtown Free Press: articles by Donnie Nelson: 26 June 1986, 18 September 1986, 25 January 1996.
Books
Abbott, Patrick, Airships (Princes Risborough 1991)
Abbott, Patrick, The British Airship at War 1914–1918 (Lavenham 1989)
Abbott, Patrick and Walmsley, Nick, British Airships in Pictures (Trowbridge 1998)
Allen, Hugh, The Story of the Airship (Non-Rigid) (Chicago 1942)
Andrews, C.F. and Morgan, E.B., Vickers Aircraft since 1908 (London 1988)
Barker, Ralph, A Brief History of the Royal Flying Corps in World War One (London 2002)
Barry, Michael, Great Aviation Stories Vol 1 (Fermoy 1993)
Bartlett, C.J., Great Britain and Sea Power 1815–1853 (Oxford 1963)
Beauchamp, K.G., History of Telegraphy (London 2001)
Bell Davies, Vice Admiral Richard, VC, Sailor in the Air (Barnsley 2008)
Bilbé, Tina, Kingsnorth Airship Station (Stroud 2013)
Blundell, W.D.G., Royal Navy Battleships 1895–1946 (New Malden 1973)
Botting, Douglas, Dr Eckener’s Dream Machine (London 2002)
Brett, Dallas, R., History of British Aviation 1908–14 (London 1933)
Broke-Smith, Brigadier P.W.L., The History of Early British Military Aeronautics (London 1952)
Bruce, J.M., Britain’s First Warplanes (Poole 1987)
Bruce, J.M., Short 184 (Berkhamsted 2001)
Burge, Squadron Leader C.G., The Complete Book of Aviation (London 1935)
Campbell, Christy, Band of Brigands (London 2008)
Campbell, Christopher, Aces and Aircraft of World War One (Blandford 1981)
Castle, Ian, British Airships 1905–30 (Oxford 2009)
Castle, Ian, London 1914–17: The Zeppelin Menace (Oxford 2008)
Churchill, Winston S., The Great War (London 1933)
Connon, Peter, An Aeronautical History of the Cumbria, Dumfries and Galloway Region (Part II) (Penrith 1984)
Connon, Peter, In the Shadow of the Eagle’s Wings – Aviation in Cumbria 1825–1914 (Penrith, 1982)
Cooper, Peter J., Farnborough: 100 Years of British Aviation (Hinckley 2006)
Cork & Orrery, Admiral of the Fleet The Earl of, My Naval Life 1886–1941 (London 1942)
Cunningham of Hyndhope, Admiral of the Fleet Viscount, A Sailor’s Odyssey (London 1951)
Davy, M.J.B., Lighter-Than-Air-Craft (London 1934)
Dennehy, Rev. Henry Edward, The History of Great Island (Cork 1990)
De Syon, Guillaume, Zeppelin! Germany and the Airship, 1900–1939 (Baltimore 2002)
Dixon, Conrad, Ships of the Victorian Navy (Southampton 1987)
Elmhirst, Air Marshal Sir Thomas, Recollections of, (London 1991)
Farrar-Hockley, General Sir Anthony, The Army in the Air (Stroud 1994)
Finnis, Bill, The History of the Fleet Air Arm From Kites to Carriers (Shrewsbury 2000)
Gambier Parry, Major E., Suakin 1885: Being a Sketch of the Campaign of this year (London 1886)
Gibson, Mary, Warneford VC (Yeovilton 1979)
Gleeson, Joe, Irish Aviators of World War 1: Volume 1 (North Charleston 2012)
Gollin, Alfred, The Impact of Air Power on the British People and Their Government, 1909–14 (Stanford 1989)
Grant, R.G., Flight: 100 Years of Aviation (London 2004)
Gray, Edwin, A Damned Un-English Weapon (London 1973)
Green, Rod, The Illustrated History of the Army Air Corps (Middle Wallop 2008)
Grey, C.G., Sea-Flyers (London 1942)
Hall, Malcolm, From Balloon to Boxkite (Stroud 2010)
Hampshire, Cecil, A., A Short History of the Royal Navy (London 1971)
Harper, Harry, My Fifty Years in Flying (London 1956)
Hartcup, Gary, The Achievement of the Airship (Newton Abbot 1974)
Harvey, Robert, Cochrane: the Life and Exploits of a Fighting Captain (London 2002)
Haslam, E.B., The History of Royal Air Force Cranwell (London 1982)
Hayes, K.E., A History of the RAF and USNAS in Ireland 1913–1923 (Dublin 1988)
Hayward, Roger, The Fleet Air Arm in Camera 1912–1996 (Stroud 1998)
Herrmann, David G., The Arming of Europe and the Making of the First World War (Princeton 1997)
Higham, R., The British Rigid Airship 1908–1931 (London 1961)
Hildebrandt, A., Airships Past & Present (London 1908)
Hodgson, J.E., The History of Aeronautics in Great Britain (Oxford 1924)
Huntford, Roland, Shackleton (London 1996)
Huntford, Roland, The Last Place on Earth (London 1985)
Jackson, A.J., De Havilland Aircraft since 1909 (London 1987)
Jackson, Robert, Army Wings: A History of Army Air Observation Flying 1914–1960 (Barnsley 2006)
Jefford, Wing Commander C.G., RAF Squadrons (Shrewsbury 1994)
Johnston, E.A., Airship Navigator (Stroud 1994)
Kent, Barrie H., Signal! A History of Signalling in the Royal Navy (London 2004)
Kilbracken, John, Bring back my Stringbag (Barnsley 1996)
Killen, John, A History of Marine Aviation (London 1969)
Lambert, Andrew, Admirals (London 2008)
Layman, R.D., Before the Aircraft Carrier (London 1989)
Leland, Mary, That Endless Adventure: A History of the Cork Harbour Commissioners (Cork 2001)
Longmore, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur, From Sea to Sky (London 1946)
Mackworth-Praed, Ben, Aviation: the Pioneer Years (London 1990)
Macmillan, Norman, Sefton Brancker (London 1925)
Magnello, Eileen, A Century of Measurement (Bath 2000)
Marder, A.J., From Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, Volume 1 (Oxford 1961)
Mason, Francis K., The British Fighter since 1912 (London 1992)
Massie, Robert K., Dreadnought (London 2004)
McKinty, Alec, The Father of British Airships: A Biography of E.T. Willows (London 1972)
Mead, Gary, The Good Soldier: The Biography of Douglas Haig (London 2008)
Mead, Peter, The Eye in the Air (London 1983)
Mowthorpe, Ces, Battlebags: British Airships of the First World War (Stroud 1998)
O’Riordan, Patrick, Portraiture of Cork Harbour Commissioners (Profiles of Cork Harbour Commissioners 1814-1997) (Cork 2014)
Oughton, Frederick, The Aces (London 1961)
Pack, Captain S.W.C., Britannia at Dartmouth (London 1966)
Palmer, A.W., A Dictionary of Modern History (Harmondsworth 1971)
Palmer, Alan, The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth Century History 1900–1978 (Harmondsworth 1979)
Penrose, Harald, British Aviation: the Pioneer Years (London 1967)
Poolman, Kenneth, Zeppelins over England (London 1960)
Probert, Air Commodore Henry, High Commanders of the Royal Air Force (London 1991)
Raleigh, W. and Jones, A.H., The War in the Air (London 1922)
Reynolds, Quentin, They Fought for the Sky (London 1960)
Robertson, Bruce, Aviation Enthusiast’s Data Book (Cambridge 1982)
Robertson, Bruce, The Army and Aviation (London 1981)
Rolt, L.T.C., Isambard Kingdom Brunel (London 1957)
Roskill, Captain S.W., Documents Relating to the Naval Air Service Volume I 1908–1918 (London 1969)
Saunders, Hilary St George, Per Ardua: The Rise of British Air Power 1911–1939 (London 1944)
Snowden Gamble, C.F., The Air Weapon Volume I (Oxford 1931)
Statham, Commander E.P., The Story of the ‘Britannia’ (London 1904)
Steel, Nigel and Hart, Peter, Tumult in the Clouds (London 1997)
Stephenson, Charles, Zeppelins: German Airships 1900–40 (Oxford 2004)
Sturtivant, Ray and Page, Gordon, Royal Navy Aircraft Serials and Units 1911–1919 (Tonbridge 1992)
Sueter, Rear Admiral Murray F., Airmen Or Noahs (London 1928)
Swanborough, Gordon and Bowers, Peter M., United States Navy Aircraft Since 1911 (Annapolis 1976)
Syk
es, Major General Sir Frederick, From Many Angles (London 1942)
Taylor, M.J.H. and Mondey, D., Milestones of Flight (London 1983)
Thetford, Owen, British Naval Aircraft since 1912 (London 1971)
Till, Geoffrey, Air Power and the Royal Navy (London 1979)
Trotter, Wilfrid Pym, The Royal Navy in Old Photographs (London 1975)
Turner, Major Charles Cyril, The Old Flying Days (London 1927)
Usborne, Vice Admiral C.V., Blast and Counterblast (London 1935)
Walker, Percy B., Early Aviation at Farnborough: Balloons, Kites and Airships (London 1971)
Walker, Percy B., Early Aviation at Farnborough Volume 2: The First Aeroplanes (London 1974)
Warner, Guy, Airships over the North Channel (Belfast 2005)
Warner, Guy, with Boyd, Alex, Army Aviation in Ulster (Newtownards 2004)
Williams, T.B., Airship Pilot No.28 (London 1974)
Websites
www.airshipsonline.com (Airship Heritage Trust)
www.geocities.com (U-boat war 1914–18)
www.gwpda.org/naval (German Admiralty Declaration 4 February 1915 and following events)
www.rafweb.org (Air of Authority: a History of RAF Organisation)
