propeller fragment
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19720147-010
- Event 1914-1919 First World War
- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Date Made 1919 or earlier
- Place of Use Continent - Europe, Country - United Kingdom
- Category Unclassifiable artifactsDistribution and transportation artifacts
- Sub-category Artifact remnantAerospace transportation accessory
- Department Arms and Technology
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1819/01/01
- Latest 1919/12/31
- Materials Wood
- Service Component Royal Air Force
- Measurements Height 0.5 cm, Length 27.1 cm, Width 2.1 cm
- Caption Propeller Fragments, Flight Lieutenant Harry Wambolt
- Additional Information These propeller fragments are from the aircraft of Flight Lieutenant Harry Wambolt of the Royal Naval Air Service, who was killed in a dogfight with two German aircraft. Wambolt enlisted from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, and was killed on 4 March 1917. Jean Thuillier, a French boy who witnessed the crash, saved the fragments and corresponded with Wambolt's grieving parents for years after the war. Thuillier sent this wreckage to the family and, in letters, described Wambolt's death and his subsequent burial by the Germans.