ADF Serials - Martinsyde Elephant

Aircraft Serial	Type..	Aircraft History
7472	G100	16/10/1916 To C Flight, 1 Sqn AFC ex 14 Sqn, RFC, 27/10/1916 To Air Park, 26/02/1917 To 1 Sqn AFC ex Air Park, 20/04/1917 shot down by anti-aircraft fire, 24/04/1917 Struck off charge.
7476	G100	19/04/1917 To B Flight, 1 Sqn, AFC ex Air Park, 20/05/1917 To Air Park,
7477	G100	17/10/1917 To B Flight, 1 Sqn, AFC ex Air Park, 07/01/1917 To Air Park, 18/02/1917 To B Flight, 1 Sqn, AFC ex Air Park, 08/07/1917 Capt. Brooks killed (wings collapsed), 17/07/1917 Struck off charge.
7486	G100	McNamara’s VC Aircraft. 03/11/1916 To 1 Sqn, AFC ex Air Park, 20/03/1917 Lt. Francis Hubert "Frank" McNamara crashed in Wadi Hesse. 24/03/1917 Struck off charge. By March 1917, No. 1 Squadron was making regular bombing raids against Gaza. On 20 March McNamara, flying on one such operation, saw a fellow squadron member, Captain D. W. Rutherford, shot down. Although having just suffered a serious leg wound, McNamara landed near the stricken Rutherford who climbed aboard, but his wound prevented McNamara from taking off and his aircraft crashed. The two men made it back to Rutherford's plane which they succeeded in starting and, with McNamara at the controls, they took off just as enemy cavalry reached the scene. For this action McNamara was awarded the Victoria Cross. From McNamara's Logbook: 21.3.1917 0900 Martinsyde-7486, Passengers-Nil, Time-2hrs.
7487	G100	18/12/1916 To 1 Sqn, AFC ex Air Park, 26/06/1917 Crashed by Lt. Adrian Cole Struck off charge.
7488	G100	07/01/1917 To 1 Sqn, AFC ex Air Park, 24/10/1917 To Air Park,
7489	G100	Served with 1 Sqn AFC
A1532	G102	Picture of this aircraft in the AWM collection. Did it serve with AFC?
A1583	G102	26/02/1917 To 1 Sqn, AFC ex Air Park, 21/04/1917 Lt. Adrian Cole hit by anti-aircraft fire and aircraft burnt, 25/04/1917 Struck off charge
A1593	G102	24/05/1917 To A Flight, 1 Sqn, AFC ex Air Park, 12/08/1917 To Air Park, Presented by Mrs H Bickford of Mount Lofty, South Australia.
A1595	G102	08/05/1917 To A Flight, 1 Sqn, AFC ex Air Park, 24/10/1917 To Air Park,
A1600	G102	08/08/1917 To A Flight, 1 Sqn, AFC ex Air Park, 24/10/1917 To Air Park, 17/01/1918 To 1 Sqn, AFC ex Air Park, 21/03/1918 To 142 Sqn, RFC.
A1605	G102	15/08/1917 To A Flight, 1 Sqn, AFC ex Air Park, 17/11/1917 To Air Park.
A3944	G102	30/07/1917 To 1 Sqn AFC ex Air Park, 17/11/1917 To Air Park, 17/01/1918 To 1 Sqn AFC ex Air Park, 16/02/1918 Caught fire on landing at Mejdel 20/02/1918 Struck off charge.
A3945	G102	30/10/1917 To 1 Sqn AFC ex Air Park, 13/04/1918 To 142 Sqn, RAF.
A3946	G102	01/01/1918 To 1 Sqn AFC, 01/03/1918 To Air Park.
A3947	G102	Served with 1 Sqn AFC.
A3953	G102	04/11/1917 To 1 Sqn AFC ex Air Park, 09/01/1918 To Air Park.
A3954	G102	01/11/1917 To 1 Sqn AFC ex Air Park, 09/01/1918 To Air Park.
A3955	G102	02/11/1917 To 1 Sqn AFC ex Air Park, 21/03/1918 To 142 Sqn, RFC.
AGNES	?	Agnes was the name given to a contraption built by Ross Smith. Agnes was a Martinsyde Elephant 160bhp Beardmore engine, propeller, fuel tank and dash board mounted to a captured Turkish rail truck. It was used as a goods truck (grog truck?) to the aerodrome at Jenin.
MIMI	?	Mimi was the name given to a hydroplane ordered built by Captain Richard (Dickie) Williams. A Martinsyde Elephant was stripped if its flying surfaces and fuselage covering and mounted on a pair of seaplane floats. It retained its Lewis gun and was used to stop "Johny Turk" getting his grain supplies from across the Dead Sea. Remembering that the Dead Sea is actually 400 meters below sea level these must be the lowest altitude missions ever.