In the treasure-filled catacombs below the Royal Alberta Museum, Sean Moir reveals a fragment of history the size of a portable hard drive.
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“What I’ve got here is a ratty old piece of wood that looks like a piece of junk, frankly,” says the museum’s curator of military and political history.
He turns the artifact in gloved hands.
“If you look at the end here, you’ll see these holes — they would have been for wires. What this is is a piece of wing strut for a bi- or a triplane. This on the aircraft would have been vertical. You can see that the one end is broken rather ragged. The other end is cut quite clean.”
A showman, he pauses: “So what is this? This is a piece of Baron von Richthofen — also known as the Red Baron — this is a piece of his famous aircraft that was scavenged by May, after (von Richthofen) was downed and he died.”
Sean Moir, curator of military and political history at Royal Alberta Museum, holds a piece of Manfred von Richthofen’s triplane scavenged after he was shot down at Morlancourt Ridge, near Vaux-sur-Somme, France, April 21, 1918. The piece belonged to Wilfrid Reid “Wop” May as he was the last person the famous Red Baron chased. It’s now part of the Royal Alberta Museum’s vast collection of Great War artefacts.
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Richthofen’s pursuit of Edmonton ace Wilfrid ‘Wop’ May over the hills of France on April 21, 1918 is the stuff of legend.
“What’s really interesting about that is Richthofen contravened all of the policies and procedures of the German air force, which he himself had written, put in place and demanded that all pilots follow,” says Moir.
“There’s a lot of speculation as to why Richthofen went after May. He was near enemy lines, down below a certain altitude. Was he determined just to get another kill? Was he suffering from post concussion syndromes?
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“Regardless, that was his choice, and it turned out to be a fatal one.”
The Fokker triplane Richthofen used to make the last of his 80 kills sat broken in a ditch alongside Route De Bray-Corbie in northern France. Men on the ground — the Australian infantry that most likely shot him down — moved in quickly, cautiously, still working the front line. The plane’s famous pilot was removed, identified and photographed, his battered face first whitened with baking soda. Richthofen’s gloves were taken, bragged about and confiscated, all by the Australians, according to oral history. Fabric, wood, spark plugs and other materials also disappeared, hindering the investigation.
How and when May joined the souvenir-taking is unclear, but the Edmontonian was certainly generous with what he brought home.
Military curator Sean Moir holds a portion of a wing strut from the plane of Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (2 May 1892 – 21 April 1918), also widely known as the Red Baron. Wop May was able to salvage this piece from the plane after the pilot was shot down while in pursuit of May. Taken at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton.
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“The reason why it’s cut off like this is that when May got back to Edmonton, this was a bigger piece, and he cut it in half,” says Moir.
For Christmas 1925 May gave a segment to his friend W. Bligh Shaw, an Edmonton Flying Club member. The RAM received that piece by donation in 1975.
A decade earlier the May family donated some mementoes from the incident — a piece of deep red fabric and wood from a strut — to the Glenbow Museum in Calgary. Curator Aimee Benoit said the museum also has a number of May’s badges and uniforms.
The Glenbow’s Richthofen artifacts are on display at the Air Force Museum of Alberta in Calgary, and they will join the RAM piece for Wild Rose Overseas: Albertans in the Great War, a show that starts July 28.
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“In the run-up to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, May gave the piece to Percy Page, the coach of the Edmonton Grads women’s basketball team,” says Moir. “They were going to Berlin, participating in a demonstration of women’s basketball — they weren’t actually at the Olympics itself.
“The request from May was that Page present this other half of the Baron’s wing strut to the Baron’s mother as a token of respect and goodwill and friendship.”
It’s unknown if the piece was presented or if it survived the Second World War intact.
Denny May holds a framed picture where on the back is written Frame made from prop from Richthofen’s plane, Apr. 21, 1918. His father Wop May, a fighter pilot in the First World War wrote those words after retrieving a part of the wooden prop after the Red Baron was shot down. He (Wop) was the final allied pilot to be pursued by Manfred von Richthofen (Red Baron) before the German ace was shot down.
Ed Kaiser, Edmonton Journal
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And, while he flew his Fokker Dr.I Dreidecker triplane only in the final weeks of a 20-month tour, the Red Baron’s was the most famous of the 320 produced. Not one of the originals exists today.
But as May’s son Denny joked recently: “With all the artifacts people claim to have around the world, you could probably build four Fokker triplanes.”
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With files from David Ryning
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