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Some representative entries to cover Freddy's November thus far.


1 November: Captain Frederick Abbott is late to the party east of Messines, with ‘A’ Flight having all the fun.


4 November: The lads of 65 Squadron say “goodbye” to La Lovie after only a week’s stay.


5 November: The first day at Bailleul Asylum ends with a dud engine and a deadstick landing for Freddy.


7 November: Abbott catches a Pfalz D.III in the rain over Roubaix and removes the Hun’s top starboard wing. The claim is denied.


10 November: ‘B’ Flight tangles with six white tailed V-strutters directly over the Asylum. Freddy crashes three and forces a third one down intact. Three of his four claims are eventually awarded.


Abbott pulling up alongside his prize, which came to rest against a fence just north of the Asylum. This is one of the Captain’s claims that day that was approved - imagine that!


12 November: Freddy fired a full volley of rockets that actually found their mark, and as he circles around for a gun pass he sees the Hun balloon go from smoking to full blaze. And it was confirmed shortly after he returned to camp.


14 November: Passing over a hellish barrage east of Ypres. How can anything survive that?


16 November: Home again home again, jiggity jog. No air Boche to be found today.


17 November: Captain Abbott waiting for the rest of 'B' Flight to arrive after an uneventful outing, cut short for him by engine trouble.


18 November: A most satisfying attack on the railyard at Loos. The Cooper bombs lit up the warehouses quite nicely.


19 November: Freddy sets a Hun gasbag ablaze north of Old Mossy Face. After turning in a claim for it he now waits to see if it will be credited him.


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