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Some original aspects of the War to end all Wars

LVG CVI

Halberstadt CV

Diary of Sgt.A.H.Lewis 216 Siege Battery RGA

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The Benz engine re-assembled

The Brussels Air Museum WW1 collection

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Welcome to the 1914-1918 Connections website

WW1 Aircraft Restoration at the Brussels Air Museum.

*Halberstadt CV (only existing example in the world).

*LVG CVI (one of only three known to exist)

216 Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery.

*Diary of Sgt.Albert H Lewis MM kept from December 1916 to October 1918

My sources of information and material are largely unique and primary, the purpose of this website being to inform and contribute to an understanding of what took place in the "War to end all wars".

All photographs and text are copyright except where the original owner has given me specific permission to publish.

LVG CVI. (4981)

The Brussels LVG CVI is one of three known to exist in any kind of complete state. The other two being the Shuttleworth example which was restored (with some modifications with regards to an airworthiness certificate) to a flying state and the carcass of the other being used as a template to build another flying example at Le Bourget in Paris.The Shuttleworth example is no longer flying and is now on static display at the Royal Airforce Museum Cosford.The LVG CVI is currently undergoing restoration and this part of the website gives unprecedented detail of the restoration through photos and text as well as10 issues of "LVG news" which documented the restoration up until 2005.Included also are some rare photos of LVG CVI's used by the Belgian Military and private commercial companies in the years immediately after the war

	The Shuttleworth LVG CV I

A report of a visit made by members of the Shuttleworth restoration team to Brussels in 1968. This is a valuable insight into the level of detailed preparation and research necessary before any restoration takes place and also provides the Brussels restoration team with an idea of the state of 4981 nearly 40 years ago

Halberstadt CV

	Original photographs, pre-restoration and as restoration begins; of the Brussels Air Museum's Halberstadt CV, believed to be unique and the only example of its type left in the world. A detailed photo study with comments and explanations in the Halberstadt CV "walkaround" section.Unprecedented access through photographs and detailed descriptions of the restoration

216 Siege Battery diary


	The diary of Sgt.Albert H Lewis MM, 216 Siege battery RGA. A unique historical document published for the first time with comments, context and explanation . The diary was kept from when he landed in France late in 1916 right up until, to put it in his own words...."I caught a piece of it (in the leg)" in October 1918.

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