DVD containing 108 high resolution scans  ( 1200dpi ) produced from 3 original photograph albums which belonged to Lieutenant William John Shorter .

Lt .Shorter served with the 1/8th Battn Essex Reg. Circa 1915 -1916 ...he then moved on to serve with the Royal Flying Corp . On the 24.03.1918 , aged only 20  he was killed in action while flying a Sopwith Camel over German lines ...only 2 days earlier he just managed to return another badly damaged plane to an airfield near Arras .

Images within the albums are mainly feature his time with the Essex Regiment in England ..training photos ...Gas drill , trench digging etc .

However , there are 4 nice photos of a Short sea plane on the River Crouch ...2 photos of the same Be2e taken at Stow maries airfield ?  , 2 photos of another Be2e " Zeppelin Strafer " and 3 photos of Fe2d ...so a total of 11 plane photos .

2 photos show wreckage of  Zeppelin L33 , taken at Peldon Essex Sept 1916.