This spirit and team work, this cooperation and single mindedness of purpose, under the able leadership of our Squadron Commanders earned for No. 8 Naval a name which few squadrons possess. For, referred to in Sir Douglas Haig’s Despatches, congratulated by the Admiralty and the Army Council, it had just cause to be proud of being made a permanent Squadron, when the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps were amalgamated into the Royal Air Force.
Click here to read Captain E G Johnstone’s account of his service as a ‘Flying Officer’:
Flight Commander Compston’s anecdote is an excerpt from the book ‘Naval Eight’, which is reviewed in the Bibliography at this link:
