"Havoc from the Heavens": the contribution of British air power to the destruction of Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Turkish Forces in 1918 through the eyes of British war artist Lieutenant Sydney Carline RAF

Jonathan Black

"Havoc from the Heavens": the contribution of British air power to the destruction of Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Turkish Forces in 1918 through the eyes of British war artist Lieutenant Sydney Carline RAF

Jonathan Black

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Abstract

In a one hour lecture I sought to explore how and why the Royal Air Force made such a contribution to the complete rout of retreating Ottoman forces in Palestine in September 1918 and of Austro-Hungarian Armies in north-eastern Italy in October of the same year. Illustrations for the lecture came in the form of works from the collection of the IWM, London by Lt. Sydney Carline, a trained fighter pilot who had fought in France and in northern Italy and then spent the last 3 months of the British Campaign in Italy as official war artist. Then, between January and April 1919 Carline was again an official artist, this time sketching the battlefields of 1918 Palestine, Lebanon and Syria - where the evidence for the destruction inflicted by the RAF on the retreating Ottoman armies was still starkly evident on the ground.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 12 Aug 2016
Event	The First World War in the Air Lunchtime Lecture Series - London, U.K. Duration: 12 Aug 2016 → 12 Aug 2016

Seminar

Seminar	The First World War in the Air Lunchtime Lecture Series
Period	12/08/16 → 12/08/16

Bibliographical note

Impact: I spoke for just over 45 minutes to an audience that numbered approximately 55 in the main ground floor lecture theatre of the Museum. I then took questions from the audience for between 15-20 minutes. A copy of my lecture was available on request after the lecture had been given. Some seven copies were requested by members of the audience. Another copy of my lecture was kept for reference purposes in the Museum's Research Room. Research undertaken earlier in the summer of 2016 on Carline and British airpower in Italy in 1918 has proved extremely useful as I now prepare for the exhibition I am to curate, January-March 2017, at the Estorick Collection, London: 'War in the Sunshine: The British In Italy, 1918, through the Eyes of official war artists Sydney Carline, Ernest Brooks and William Brunell.'

Organising Body: Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon

Keywords

Art and design

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