GUSTAV HAMEL
1889-1914
 
 
Gustav Hamel
 
 
Gustav Hamel
Photo Courtesy of Helena Aldis
 

 
   
  Biography
1884-1914
King George V Coronation
Air Mail Flights
1911
Final Flights
1912-1914
 

 
   
  Warwickshire Yeomanry Museum
1911
 

 
 
ONLINE RESOURCES
     If you search for "Gustav Hamel", using the Google search engine, (8-15-05), you will find 451 links!. A good place to start is the following.
 

 
 
Gustav Hamel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
     This summary of his life and career is typical of the entries which are found in the Wikipedia free encyclopedia. It offers a very comprehensive revue which contains many links to sites which may be followed for more detailed information. It also includes an extensive bibliography which you may find is useful. You can access the page by clicking on the title above.
 

 
 
You can see another very nice picture of him
on the Family History and Post card Collecting website
of David Barnes.
 

 
 
 
       Gustav Hamel disappeared over the channel on 23rd May 1914 while returning from Paris in a new 80hp Morane-Saulnier monoplane he had just collected.
 
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