William Faulkner, Cadet

Abstract

Mr. Gordon Price-Stephens, in an admirable article On "Faulkner and the Royal Air Force," has recently cleared away much of the confusion, mystery, and rumour which has so long surrounded Faulkner's brief military career. As Mr. Price-Stephens makes clear, Faulkner joined the Royal Air Force in Toronto in July 1918, the Royal Flying Corps having gone out of existence On April 1, 1918, and had not finally completed his training at the time of the Armistice the following November: he did not go to France, therefore, or see combat. In attempting to find out something more about this little-known period of Faulkner's life, I have been greatly aided not only by Mr. Price-Stephens's article but also by his generosity in making available to me the results of his own meticulous research. Using the information he supplied, it has been a relatively simple matter to discover in Toronto a number of men whose R.A.F. experience closely paralleled Faulkner's and, in particular, two who had known Faulkner at that time and could tell something of the young man they remembered.

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