1918-3-28 Trench Map Arras & East - Property of 13 Sqd. RFC Observer

Description

1918-03-28 Trench Map – Arras + east approaches @British front line (@24 x 16 1/2”)
Paper map including: parts of 51B N.W. and S.W revision sheet to Third Army map. German lines in blue. Issued 9 PM on 3-28-18.
Worn and missing @1.5 of 12 folded panels.
Photo of Blair on right with pilot and R.E. 8 of No. 13 Sqd, RFC not included.
Lt. Thomas S. Blair, RFA and No. 13 Sqd. RFC-RAF
Blair joined the army in 1915, was commissioned a 2
nd
Lt. in the R.F.A. He wounded at
Longueval on the Somme in 1916, recovered and joined the RFC becoming an observer in the Fall of 1917. He joined No. 13 Sqd. (R.E.8?s) and flew
168 combat hours. In the late Spring of 1918, he trained to become a pilot and may have instructed in England for the balance of the war.
He came to Canada, then the US in 1924 where he served as a sales engineer for Citi
es Service Oil and its subsidiaries.
He flew for business and was killed in an aircraft accident in 1953. See other maps and memorabilia of Blair in my other Ebay listings.