Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (GS) BAT196 Translated as Maid of all

Translated as Maid of all Work

Situated 40 miles south west of Leningrad

Origina watercolour painting by Robert Barbour

Albert Ball in his Nieuport 17 having just shot down a German LVG

He went on to score 7 balloon victories and was awarded the Blue Max

Hansa Brandenburg W.12 - Attack on the C.17 by Ivan Berryman. (GS) BAT196 Translated as Maid of allDHM1813GS. Hansa Brandenburg W. 12 Attack on the C. 17 by Ivan Berryman. On the morning of 21st April 1917, coastal airship No C. 17 was on a routine patrol captained by Sub Lieutenant E G O Jackson, when sometime around 8. 00am, she was attacked by German seaplanes and shot down. Such was their vulnerability that these huge battlebags were an easy target for marauding enemy scouts, their single Lewis guns achieving little by way of defence. The Hansa