APPENDIX 2-AL

Summary of WW-I MISCELLANEOUS
MILITARY BALLOONISTS of Distinction ADT

Name, Rank	Distinction
JOLLY,  S., 2nd Lt.	won Military Cross for 7 jumps in 166:09
LONG, Gerry
MACHIN, G.D., Captain	won D.F.C.
MacKENZIE	training officer
MacNEECE, Lt.Col.	made 2 jumps in 500:12 aloft
MADDISON,	squadron leader
MEYLER, H.M., Major	no jumps in 67:14 aloft
VENTRY, Lord
WARP, Mouldy	Flt.Lt.
WILLIAMS, Bill, Captain	AFC/RFC
WILTSHIER,	Flt.Lt.
YORKSHIRE,	hit in air by enemy ground fire

+++  see APPENDIX-AS  +++


ITALY

Italy had 2 spherical Observation balloons in 1916; had at least one German Drachen later in the war.  


FRANCE

France had maximum of 100 squadrons by 1915, 96 on Western Front. +++  see APPENDIX-AT  +++  


GERMANY

Germany had a maximum of 184 squadrons by 1915, 96 on Western Front, and 98 on the Eastern front.  Each Squadron had 2-3 balloons.

GROFF, Hans

HILDEBRANDT, Alfred

KEHLER, Richard

KLUGMAN, Herman

MOEDEBECK, Herman W.

NIEBER, Stefan von

SCOTTMEISTER, Alfred (served at Dvorczak, on the Russian front)

STEHLING, William

+++  See APPENDIX-AU  +++


RUSSIA

RUSSIANS had a maximum of 25 B-Squadrons of 2 balloons each. (46 total)

+++  See APPENDIX-AV  +++


SERBIA

SERBIANS had two observation balloons (in Bohemia).  They bought 2-balloons from Germany, but use is unconfirmed. 

r: The German Air Force in the Great War,  1920, Memiors of an Old Balloonatic, 1972;  British-Imperial War Museum archives, London.


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