Fresson’s aeroplane: letter and photograph

• Reference:GB 241 D1/67
• Dates of Creation:1971
• Name of Creator:
  Fereday, Dr, Ray P (1971-1998)
• Language of Material:English
• Physical Description:
  0.01 Linear Metres

• Scope and Content

  Letter and photograph about Capt Fresson’s aeroplane, 1971.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Ernest Edmund Fresson was born in Orkney in 1891 and in 1911 joined a tea merchants and went to China. In 1914 he volunteered to join the Royal Flying Corps, trained in Canada and the United States and served in Europe. After demobilisation he made a living doing flying displays, then returned to China and was for a time an airmail pilot. From 1930 to 1947 he consolidated the Highland and Islands Air Service, flying De Havilland Dragons and Rapides between Inverness, Wick and Kirkwall. He maintained the service throughout the Second World War, but the company was taken over by British European Airways in 1947 and he was dismissed. He left for Kenya, but eventually returned to Scotland and died in 1963.

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