Bristol Scout D no.8996 shot down by Lt.Meinecke [2] on Feb.17, 1917[1]. The scout was flown by Lt.Bysshe. It is Lt. Meinecke sitting on the aircraft. Source "The air war Canakkale" by Bulent Yilmazer.
(below)Turkish Soldiers/Dardanel 1918
Mavi Boncuk |Derived from a single-seat sports biplane designed by Frank Barnwell, first flown in February 1914 and retrospectively known as the Scout A, the Scout D was a revised design which, completed in November 1915, had provision for a fixed synchronised 7.7mm Vickers gun.
[1] This a date after Gallipoli Campaign (November 3, 1914 - January 9, 1916)
[2] EMIL MEINECKE (b. July 20, 1892 in Mannheim, Germany - d.1975 St. Catharines, Ont., Canada) He was educated for an apprenticeship as mechanic and became mechanic for German Aviation Pioneer, Karl Jatho in 1910. After three years of servicing airplanes, his ambition to fly them was achieved and he was allowed to solo in the Jatho Monoplane in the Autumn of 1913. When World War I started in 1914, he joined the German Fliegertruppe and served first in Germany, then in arriving on December 1915 Turkey as an instructor to 1st Air Squadron (1. Tayyare Bolugu) and later the 6th Air Squadron near Galata, Gallipoli (now a village called Sütlüce) as a combat pilot. he left in 1918 with the other german pilots and was discharged from the German Air Force in December 1919.See for more.
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