Camel Pilot Supreme
Annette Carson
Having initially enlisted in the South African Defence Force on the outbreak of war in 1914, D'Urban Armstrong soon sought a transfer to the Royal Flying Corps. Such was the skill Armstrong displayed when in the air, he was famed among his contemporaries as the best Camel pilot of the war. His aerobatic performances entertained visiting dignitaries. In 1917, Armstrong helped to pioneer home defence tactics used by the RFC against the onslaught of enemy bombers which had started to operate over the South-East. In 1918 he was at the leading edge of the dangerous new art of offensive night fighting, flying intruder missions and intercepting German night-bombers in support of ground troops on the Western Front. He crashed during one of his aerobatic displays in France on 8 October 1918. He succumbed to his injuries 3 days after the fighting on the Western Front had ended.
Camel Pilot Supreme
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