Samson was a pioneer airman in the British Royal Navy. This memoir covers his varied service incl with armoured cars in Belgium August to November of 1914. Then he flew RNAS a/c on raids from Belgium Nov. 1914 ro Feb. 1915. He then transfered to the Mediterreanean where he flew seaplanes at Gallipoli March to Dec. 1915. He commanded the seaplance carrier BEN-MY-CHREE which operated against the Turks off the palestine coast may 1916 to jan.1917 till sunk by a sub. His final assignment was CO of the Great Yarmouth air station in England in the last year of the war.