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Chapter 1: Introduction—gifts for the Royal Navy, and the Patriotic League
Chapter 2: And for the Army, Vickers Gunbus Dominica, and a kite balloon …
Chapter 3: The Imperial Aircraft Flotilla Takes Off, 1915–1916
Part II—Case Studies: The campaign’s spread and development
Chapter 4: Press and personal networks: Canada and Newfoundland
Chapter 5: Sultan Seyyid Khalifa of Zanzibar and the Royal Naval Air Service
Chapter 6: Tropical Sugarcane Producers: Pacific, Indian Ocean, and Caribbean
Chapter 7: Eastern outposts—bankers and philanthropists of Hong Kong
Chapter 8: The Malaya Air Fleet Fund—the Straits Settlements and Malay states
Chapter 9: West Africa, and most particularly Gold Coast, and Hugh Clifford
Chapter 10: The Rhodesias—friends in high places, a Grey area?
Chapter 11: The Basuto nation, the British sovereign, and 25 Sopwith Camels
Chapter 12: Swaziland, Major Miller, the Union of South Africa, and Jan Smuts
Chapter 13: The Indian Empire: The sub-continent and Burma
Chapter 14: Birds of Ceylon—a very strange campaign indeed
Chapter 15: Furthest ripples of the Great War reach Abyssinia and Siam
Chapter 16: Big and small donors: The Shanghai Race Club and Argentine Britons
Chapter 17: Charles Alma Baker and the Australian Air Squadrons Fund
Part III—How it ended, and epilogue
Chapter 18: New Zealand and Britain’s aeroplane gifts to the Dominions
Chapter 19: Cast list: minorities, colonials, ‘subject peoples’ and native rulers
Chapter 20: The orchestration of support—the British Empire’s last curtain call?
Annex II: The Patriotic League of Britons Overseas
Annex III: The Imperial Air Fleet Committee
Annex IV: Procedural correspondence and instructions
Bibliography I—Primary Sources:
