Guston Road
GUSTON ROAD: Military aerodrome (also known as DOVER)
Aerial view 2018
Note: This picture was obtained from Google Earth © and shows the proximity to SWINGATE DOWN.
Military users: RNAS Home Defence Station (1914 to 1917)
RNAS Flying School (1915 to 1918)
RAF/RNAS Marine Operations Station (1914 to 1919)
Location: Roughly 1nm N to NNE of Dover town centre
Period of operation: 1914 to 1919
Site area: 55 acres 549 x 366
Robin A Brown
This comment was written on: 2018-03-05 15:06:13My father, Lieut. L O Brown, RNAS, was nearly killed on 28th April 1917 when his overloaded BE2C flew into side side of one of the buildings of the Duke of York's School. He survived, badly burned, but his observer, air mechanic A Weaver, died.
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