Captain George Edwin Thomson, was a Scottish World War I flying ace credited with how many aerial victories, and one of the leading Sopwith Camel aces?
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George Edwin Thomson Captain George Edwin Thomson DSO MC (19 September 1897 – 23 May 1918) was a Scottish World War I flying ace credited with 21 aerial victories. He was the second ranking ace of his squadron, and one of the leading Sopwith Camel aces.
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Sopwith Camel The Sopwith Camel was a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter aircraft introduced on the Western Front in 1917. It was developed by the Sopwith Aviation Company as a successor to the earlier Sopwith Pup and became one of the most iconic fighter aircraft of the First World War.
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Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson Captain Samuel Frederick Henry "Siffy" Thompson {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (30 August 1890 – 27 September 1918) was a British World War I two-seater fighter ace who, in conjunction with his observer-gunners, was credited with thirty aerial victories (18 destroyed, 12 'out of control') before being was shot down and killed. Despite having an active fighter career of only five months, he reached the rank of captain and won two British military decorations.
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Frederick Britnell Squadron Leader Frederick John Shaw Britnell {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} was a flying ace in the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Air Force during World War I. He was credited with nine aerial victories. He returned to service for World War II, remaining in the Royal Air Force until 1954.
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Alcock Scout The Alcock Scout, a.k.a. A.1 and Sopwith Mouse, was a curious "one-off" experimental fighter biplane flown briefly during World War I. It was assembled by Flight Lieutenant John Alcock at Moudros, a Royal Naval Air Service base in the Aegean Sea. Alcock took the forward fuselage and lower wings of a Sopwith Triplane, the upper wings of a Sopwith Pup and the tailplane and elevators of a Sopwith Camel, and married them to a rear fuselage and vertical tail surface of original design (presumably by Alcock himself). It was powered by a 110 hp Clerget 9Z engine, and carried a .303 Vickers machine gun.
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Edward Sayers (RAF airman) Sergeant Edward Harper Sayers was a British World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.
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George Gates Captain George Brian Gates {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 21 July 1899 – date of death unknown) was a World War I flying ace credited with 15 aerial victories, twelve of them enemy aircraft, and three observation balloons.
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Ernest Foot Major Ernest Leslie Foot {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (19 May 1895 – 23 June 1923) was an English World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories. He was the best friend of Albert Ball.
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Leslie Hamilton Flying Officer Leslie Hamilton {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} , was a British World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. He disappeared while attempting the first non-stop east-west flight across the Atlantic Ocean. His Fokker F.VIIa, named "St. Raphael", was last seen in mid-Atlantic by SS "Josiah Macy", a Standard Oil ship.
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John Owen Donaldson Captain John Owen Donaldson (May 14, 1897 – September 7, 1930) was a World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories.
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William Lewis Wells Captain William Lewis Wells {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1895 – 6 May 1918) was a British World War I flying ace credited with ten aerial victories. His exceptional valour twice won him the Military Cross.
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George S. L. Hayward Flying Officer George Searle Lomax Hayward {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1 November 1894 – 16 August 1924) was an English World War I aerial observer credited with 24 victories. He served as an observer/gunner for fellow aces Frank Weare, Ernest Elton, and William Lewis Wells. Hayward scored the bulk of his wins, 22 of them, between 6 March and 22 April 1918, usually scoring two or three times in the same fight.
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William Spurrett Fielding-Johnson William Spurrett Fielding Johnson MC and Bar, DFC (8 February 1892 – 10 February 1953) was a British military officer who served in both World War I and World War II. Originally an Army officer, he later joined the Royal Flying Corps, and became a flying ace credited with six aerial victories, and ended the war as a captain with two awards of the Military Cross. In World War II he served in the Royal Air Force, winning the Distinguished Flying Cross and rising to the rank of squadron leader.
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Andrew Edward McKeever Andrew Edward McKeever DSO, MC & Bar, DFC (21 August 1894 – 25 December 1919) was a Canadian World War I two-seater flying ace who, in conjunction with his gunners, was credited with 31 victories. He was the highest scoring two seater fighter pilot in the Royal Flying Corps or Royal Air Force.
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Francis Kitto Captain Francis Mansel Kitto {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (1 January 1897 – 25 June 1926) was a Welsh-born flying ace credited with nine official aerial victories during World War I.
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Claud Stokes Captain Claud Harry Stokes {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (16 March 1884 – 7 November 1918) was a British First World War flying ace credited with five aerial victories, all while flying the Airco DH.4.
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Arnold Jacques Chadwick Flight Commander Arnold Jacques Chadwick, DSC was a Canadian-born World War I flying ace credited with 11 aerial victories. He became an ace twice over; once while flying Sopwith Pups and again while piloting Sopwith Camels.
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John E. L. Hunter Captain John Ellis Langford Hunter {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (31 January 1897 – 18 June 1971) was a British World War I flying ace credited with 12 confirmed aerial victories.
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David Hughes (RAF officer) Captain David James Hughes {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (born 16 April 1899, date of death unknown) was a British First World War flying ace credited with five aerial victories.
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Frank George Gibbons Flight Lieutenant Frank George Gibbons {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (13 June 1899 – 21 May 1932) was a British First World War flying ace credited with fourteen aerial victories. He served in the Royal Air Force post-war, until killed in a flying accident during an air race.
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William Charles Campbell Captain William Charles Campbell, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (27 April 1889 – 26 February 1958), was a World War I fighter pilot of Scots heritage who was credited with 23 victories. Serving with No. 1 Squadron during 1917, he was a notable balloon buster, being the first British ace to down five enemy observation balloons. He also claimed eleven aircraft destroyed, and seven (including two shared) 'driven down out of control'.
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Richard Minifie Richard Pearman Minifie, (2 February 1898 – 31 March 1969) was an Australian fighter pilot and flying ace of the First World War. Born in Victoria, he attended Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. Travelling to the United Kingdom, he enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service in June 1916. Accepted for flight training, he completed his instruction in December and joined No. 1 (Naval) Squadron RNAS on the Western Front in January 1917, flying Sopwith Triplanes. He went on to score seventeen aerial victories on this type of machine throughout the year, becoming both the youngest Australian flying ace of the First World War and No. 1 (Naval) Squadron's highest-scoring ace on the Triplane. The unit re-equipped with the Sopwith Camel late in 1917, with Minifie going on to achieve a further four victories on the aircraft, raising his final tally to a score of twenty-one aircraft shot down.