b'915 1615D Mar. 23 1920 Adelaide Welcome Home invitation and programme dedicated to To Captain Sir Ross Smith and Crew, Tendered by Members and Friends of the 3rd Light Horse Regiment, held at the Tivoli Theatre, Grote Street, Adelaide.The programme lists the stops en route, dates, distances travelled and provides the names and photographs of all four crew members as well as technical details of the aeroplane. All crew members spoke, as did the Premier of South Australia, and the Lord Mayor of Adelaide. (2 items)Ross Smith enlisted in 1914, into the 3rd Light Horse Regiment, landing at Gallipoli 13 May 1915. In 1917, he volunteered for the Australian Flying Corps. He was later twice awarded the Military Cross and the Distinguished Flying Cross three times, becoming an air ace with 11 confirmed aerial victories. Smith was pilot for T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) and fought in aerial combat missions in the Middle East.He is mentioned several times in Lawrences book, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. $250300161920 John Martin & Co (Department Store, Adelaide) advertising fan produced to commemorate Ross & Keith Smiths AERIAL FLIGHT/ENGLAND to AUSTRALIA/1919 showing map of route and flight schedule with inset images of Ross & Keith Smith, some minor edge blemishes and very light spotting. Rare survivor. $20030017L 1920 official souvenir programme for the The Sir Ross Smith Flight printed in sepia with the originalpictorial cover (small blemishes & spotting, edges reinforced with tape), 8pp staplebound, illustrated withtwo full page photographic portraits of Ross & Keith Smith plus vignette photographs of Shiers & Bennett,the Vickers Vimy aircraft and scenes from the flight taken from the air, on the inside back cover is a timetable of the flight; some light wrinkling internally but overall in very presentable condition for this scarce publication.[This souvenir was issued in conjunction with a documentary film about Smiths historic flight, the first to be made from England to Australia] $15025018L The First Aeroplane Voyage from England to Australia by Sir Ross Smith published by Angus & Robertson (Sydney, 1920) with 27 Aeroviews of Sydney and NSW towns by Capt. Frank Hurley, signed by Ross Smith, Keith Smith and Frank Hurley at a farewell lunch held at Sydneys Metropole Hotel, some staining & blemishes to cover and page edges. Signed examples are extremely rare. $30040019L The First Aeroplane Voyage from England to Australia by Sir Ross Smith published by Angus & Robertson (Sydney, 1920) with 27 Aeroviews of Sydney and NSW towns by Capt. Frank Hurley, minor cover blemishes. $15020020D 24 April 1921 Ross Smith signed letter headed 76 Jermyn Street/S.W.1 to a Mrs Tweedie asking for advice on expanding the article he wrote for The National Geographic Magazine about his England to Australia flight into book format and requesting suggestions as to how to source a publisher. Ex Frommer. $20030021L The Mechanical Principles of the Aeroplane published by Macmillan (New York, 1921), a scarce technical manual on the physics of aviation with plenty of mathematical detail and diagrams, an aviation-related bookplate pasted to the inside front page, 277pp octavo-sized hardbound with gilt-lettered cloth cover. $200250'