'The "White Horse" near Devizes (Wilts). The figure is cut in the chalk on hill side.', 1918

Photograph taken by Observer Edward Manthorpe, Royal Flying Corps, 22 March 1918.

Aerial photograph of the chalk 'White Horse' near Devizes in Wiltshire, probably taken during a training mission.

From an album of 66 aerial photographs taken by Observer Edward Albert Augustus Manthorpe (1892-1939), Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force, 1917-1918 (c). Manthorpe died in the Royal Star and Garter Home for Disabled Sailors and Soldiers in 1939.