By Harriet Arkell Royal Naval Air Service pilot William Sambrook, 22, told in his diary how German pilots helped the British in WW1 British and German airmen went to astonishing lengths to help each other in the First World War, warning each other where they were about to drop bombs and sending photographs of graves when they buried the other side's dead. The extraordinary level of cooperation has been uncovered during research for an exhibition commemorating the conflict’s outbreak. Diaries kept by a young pilot from Pembrokeshire reveal how camaraderie sometimes took precedence over hostilities, particularly amongst British and German pilots.
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Diaries written by young pilot from Pembrokeshire give insight into the war
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Royal Naval Air Service pilot William Sambrook, 22, wrote diary in 1916
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Tells how Germans let British know when one of their pilots was shot down
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Mr Sambrook says the Germans dropped message about deceased Brit
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War historian says cooperation more common among pilots than infantry
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Imperial War Museum's Alan Wakefield also said Germans once warned of impending bomb attack
Mr Wakefield said: 'I think it’s more likely to have been an example of @placeholder humour - they wouldn’t have expected the British to take them up on it.'