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This is a list of flying aces in World War I from Canada.A flying ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down five or more enemy aircraft during aerial combat. . Canadians served in the British flying services–the Royal Flying Corps, the Royal Naval Air Service, and the Royal Air Force, as Canada had no air arm until the formation of the Canadian Air Force on September 1
Royal Canadian Air Force Albert Ulrich Houle: 11.5: Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force John MacKay: 11.2 [2] Royal Canadian Air Force Donald Campbell Gordon: 11: Royal Air Force Royal Canadian Air Force Eric Norman Woods: 10.66: Royal Air Force Richard Joseph Audet: 10.5: Royal Canadian Air Force Robert Allan Kipp: 10.5: Royal Canadian ...
Canadian World War I flying aces (131 P) Pages in category "Canadian World War I pilots" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Arthur Roy Brown, DSC & Bar (23 December 1893 – 9 March 1944) was a Canadian flying ace of the First World War, credited with ten aerial victories. [1] The Royal Air Force officially credited Brown with shooting down Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron", although historians, doctors, and ballistics experts consider it all but certain that Richthofen was actually killed by a machine gunner ...
Canadian World War I pilots (1 C, 10 P) V. ... Pages in category "Canadian military personnel of World War I" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of ...
During the last two years of the war 3,135 pilots and 137 observers trained in Canada and Texas for both the RFC and the new Royal Air Force (RAF). Of these trainees, 2,624 went to Europe for operational duty. [4] The RAF(C) was succeeded by the establishment of the Canadian Air Force in 1920 which became the Royal Canadian Air Force on April 1 ...
Top Canadian and British Empire ace VC, CB, DSO*, MC, DFC. Ernst Udet German Empire: Luftstreitkräfte: 62 [5] PLM, HOH, IC Mick Mannock † United Kingdom: Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force: 61 [9] Top British ace VC DSO & Two Bars MC & Bar. Raymond Collishaw Canada: Royal Naval Air Service, Royal Air Force: 60 [10] Top Royal Naval Air ...
Birks enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 31 August 1915, serving as a lieutenant in the 73rd Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada), [6] [7] and was wounded in November 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. [5] Birks joined RFC Canada on 8 March 1917, and trained as a pilot at Deseronto and Camp Borden. [8]