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This profile is taken from a photo which appears in "One Airmans War" depicting Martinsyde 7477 on its back after a landing accident in which one wheel was lost. The most notable feature of the aircraft is the white serial on the vertical stabilizer. A photograph of another 1 Sqn AFC Martinsyde depicts 7477 in the background with PC12 fuselage surfaces and a Clear Doped Linen vertical stabilizer with a black serial.
Martinsyde 7477 was with the squadron and attached to B Flight from the 17th of October 1916 until the 7th of January 1917 before being handed back to X Aircraft Park at Cairo. The squadron received the aircraft back on the 18th of February 1917.
Martinsyde 7477 was the aircraft Captain C.A. Brookes was flying on the 8th of July 1917 when he was shot down in an aerial engagement with the Rumpler C.I of Offstv. Kern and Oberleutnant Kurt Jancke of FA300. The Martinsyde was observed to go into a spin while engaging the Rumpler and Albatros of FA300 and ripped it's wings off before hitting the ground. In the same engagement Oberleutnant Gerhard Felmy, the leading German ace in the theatre, shot down the BE12a of Lieutenant C.H Vautin of 1 Sqn AFC.