| First Published | Sept., 1916 |
| Second Impression | Sept., 1916 |
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CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| INTRODUCTION | [1] | |
| SECTION | ||
| I. | TRAINING | [11] |
| II. | ON HOME SERVICE | [23] |
| III. | RAIDS ON THE BELGIAN COAST | [47] |
| IV. | WITH THE B.E.F. | [61] |
| V. | TAKING A NEW MACHINE TO FRANCE | [93] |
| VI. | WITH THE B.E.F. AGAIN | [101] |
| VII. | ON HOME SERVICE AGAIN | [121] |
| VIII. | WITH THE B.E.F. ONCE MORE | [125] |
| IX. | ON HOME SERVICE ONCE MORE | [133] |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| TO FACE PAGE | |
| FLIGHT-LIEUTENANT HAROLD ROSHER, R.N. | Frontispiece |
| THE LATE FLIGHT-LIEUT. RIGGALL, R.N., ON A GRAHAME-WHITE "BOX-KITE" | [14] |
| THE FAMOUS 873 AVRO FLOWN BY FLIGHT-COMMANDER S. V. SIPPE, D.S.O., AND BY FLIGHT-LIEUT. ROSHER | [34] |
| BRINGING THE PILOT ASHORE AFTER A FLIGHT ON A SOPWITH SEAPLANE | [44] |
| "SHORT" SEAPLANES AT ANCHOR OFF SPITHEAD | [44] |
| FLIGHT-LIEUT. HAROLD ROSHER, R.N. | [54] |
| SQUADRON-COMMANDER IVOR T. COURTNEY, R.N. | [76] |
| ONE VICKERS FIGHTING BIPLANE PHOTOGRAPHED FROM ANOTHER | [84] |
| A VICKERS FIGHTING BIPLANE | [84] |
| THE OVERTURNED MORANE | [90] |
| A SNAPSHOT OF LIEUT. ROSHER | [90] |
| A ZEPPELIN AIRSHIP | [108] |
| A ZEPPELIN IN THE DOUBLE SHED AT JOHANNISTHAL | [108] |
| A TAUBE-TYPE GERMAN MONOPLANE | [108] |
| LIEUT. ROSHER FLYING A BRISTOL "BULLET" | [114] |
| A FIRE CAUSED BY LONG-RANGE BOMBARDMENT | [114] |
| FLIGHT-SUB-LIEUT. WARNEFORD, V.C. | [114] |
| A BRISTOL SCOUT BIPLANE (OR "BULLET") | [136] |
| THE MORANE "PARASOL" MONOPLANE FLOWN BY FLIGHT-SUB-LIEUT. WARNEFORD, V.C. | [136] |
| A B.E. 2C BIPLANE | [144] |
| A NIEUPORT BIPLANE | [144] |
| A BLÉRIOT MONOPLANE | [144] |
INTRODUCTION
Harold Rosher was born at Beckenham on the 18th November, 1893, and was educated at The Dene, Caterham, and subsequently at Woodbridge. Although as a boy he suffered severely from acute asthma and bronchitis, he did well at school; and the pluck which carried him through the moral distresses of asthma helped him to hold his own in games, despite the fact that up to the age of sixteen he was considerably under the average height. As his health did not cease to give anxiety, he was taken for a holiday to India (being with his father the guest of the Maharajah Ranjitsinhji, Jam Sahib of Nawanagar) in 1909. In 1913, for the same reason, he made a trip to South Africa with his sister. It was his health again which helped to decide his career. An open-air life was considered to be essential, and he became a student at the South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, remaining there until the outbreak of the war.