Memorabilia - BASIL WATSON COLLECTION: FABRIC FROM BIPLANE (PIECE), c. 1916

Physical description

Section of silk fabric from Biplane partly painted with airforce type symbol. Encrusted with fragments of red and blue paint (also loose). Plus sand? Could be from Basil Watson's plane that crashed into Port Phillip Bay, near Point Cook in 1917. Basil died in the accident.

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