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17%u0010%u0013%u0016%u0017)2%u00061 Gillison, Douglas; The Royal Australian Air Force 1939?1942 (Canberra, 1962), pp182. Although devoted to the RAAF in the early part of the Second World War the first three chapters of the book contain a very concise and useful exposition on the formation and early years of the Service. 2 Ibid, pp283. 3 Ibid, pp386 On the early manoeuvrings involving Legge and Maguire see also Coulthard8Clark, C D; The Third Brother %u2013 The Royal Australian Air Force 1921?1939 (Sydney, 1991) pp183. 4 For further details on the gift see Bennett, John; The Imperial Gift (Maryborough, 1996), passim.5 Gillison, p10. 6 Bennett, p19. 7 Ibid, p13. 8 Bennett, p19. 9 Ibid, p20. 10 Williams, p117. 11 Letter Williams to Trenchard, 31 December 1927, Trenchard Papers RAF Museum Hendon, MFC76/1/ 266. 12 Letter Williams to Trenchard, 14 January 1921 and undated [1 March 1921?] draft reply. TNA AIR2/213. 13 TNA CAB 5/5 CID Paper 2068C, %u2018The Development of Dominion Air Forces%u2019. 14 TNA AIR2/1453, minutes of Conference and correspondence between Trenchard and Blamey, November 1923. 15 See Ibid, for detailed exchanges between 1923 and 1932. 16 For examples see the exchanges contained in the Trenchard papers, RAFM MFC76/1/266. 17 For example see the list of books for the training of Citizen Air Force day bombing/reconnaissance pilots in the Salmond Report, Appendix I(2) Attachment C. TNA AIR20/5994. 18 Williams to Trenchard, 3 September 1926, Trenchard Papers RAFM MFC/76/1/266. 19 Stephens, Alan; Going Solo: the Royal Australian Air Force 1946?1971(Canberra, 1995) p3 20 Coulthard8Clark, p102. 21 Douglas, W A B; Creation of a National Air Force, Volume II of The Official History of the Royal Canadian Air Force, p48. 22 Ibid, pp50 and 57. 23 TNA AIR8/96 %u2018Report by Air Marshal Sir John Salmond on the Organization, Administration, Training, and General Policy of Development of the New Zealand Air Force%u2019, 1928. 24 See letter from UK High Commissioner to Rt Hon Malcolm Macdonald MP, 28 May 1936, TNA AIR2/1192.
