while faster scouts (fighters) such as the S.E.5 and the Bristol Fighter dogfight with German fighters. The Camel role is unglamorous and very dangerous, machine gunning trenches and approach routes at a few hundred feet up in un-armoured aircraft, with a constant threat from machine-gun fire from the soldiers beneath them. References Hugh Cecil, The Flower of Battle: British Fiction Writers of the First World War (Secker & Warburg, 1995) - chapter 3 External links 1897 births 1934 deaths People from Dulwich Royal Flying Corps officers Royal Air Force officers British Army personnel of World War I Royal Air Force personnel of World War I British World War I flying aces 20th-century deaths from tuberculosis People educated at Colfe's School Tuberculosis deaths in England English male novelists 20th-century English novelists 20th-century English male writers