Sergeant Popkin’s crew
Event ID: 772
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The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war’s greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021
21 April 1918
49.92624737885039, 2.536025914275235
On a ridge by the Bray to Corbie road
Vaux-sur-Somme
Source ID: 35
The Red Baron, a photographic album of the first world war’s greatest ace, Manfred von Richthofen, Terry C Treadwell, Pen and Sword Books, 2021 p. 105
ISBN: 9781526781321
Australian machine gun crew that brought down MvR.
Sergeant Cedric B. Popkin is at the trigger handles of the Vickers machine gun.
To his left is Harry Heywood, and to his right might be Ruper F. Weston. The fourth person has not been identified yet.
In The Red Baron’s Last Flight of Norman Franks and Alan Bennett, it is mentioned that Popkin was assisted by Private Rupert Weston and Private Marshall.