My subject, a Gunner, attended two courses in India at what is recorded on his docs as 18 Air Survey Party. One on "Air Survey" and the other to qualify as a topographical draughtsman. Can anyone please shed a little light on this outfit, what corps were they (RE??). He went from his Field Regt to HQRA 36 Div to work as a topographical draughtsman after the second course. Max
18 (Air Survey) Party seems to have been engaged in mapping the North West Frontier in India. there may be spmething in this lot - Search results: Air Survey india | The National Archives TD
From Google experiences in photographic surveying - AGU Publications https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1477-9730.1973.tb01208.x I lost no time in applying to join the Survey of India and joined at Dehra Dun in .... No. 18 (Air Survey) Party was the only party engaged on air survey among ... TD
