Introduction: They Also Served – Re-evaluating and Reconsidering the Neglected

Keith Muspratt was a typical product of the British public school system in the early years of the 20th century. A doctor’s son from Bournemouth on the South Coast, Muspratt went to a local preparatory school and from there to Sherborne School in Dorset. He died in a plane crash while training at Martlesham Heath near Ipswich in early 1918, having already made a name for himself in the fledgling Royal Flying Corps.