List of World War I aces from Australia

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Serny, France, November 1918. A score board recording the claims for enemy aircraft destroyed by No. 80 Wing RAF from July - November 1918. The squadrons listed include No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps and No. 4 Squadron, AFC. The other columns are headed "In Flames", "Crashed", "O.O.C." (Out of Control), "Driven Down" and "Balloons Destroyed"." AWM P02163.016.jpg
Serny, France, November 1918. A score board recording the claims for enemy aircraft destroyed by No. 80 Wing RAF from July – November 1918. The squadrons listed include No. 2 Squadron, Australian Flying Corps and No. 4 Squadron, AFC. The other columns are headed "In Flames", "Crashed", "O.O.C." (Out of Control), "Driven Down" and "Balloons Destroyed"."

The following is the list of World War I aces from Australia. During the war Australian pilots served in a range of units in the Australian Flying Corps (AFC) and in the British Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and later the Royal Air Force (RAF). Australia was the only Dominion to have its own independent air arm during the war. [1] Pilots were considered to be "aces" after they had shot down five or more enemy aircraft; 81 Australians are believed to have achieved this feat, with the highest scorer being Robert Alexander Little, who is credited with 47 air victories.

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Australian WWI aces

NameSquadron(s)VictoriesNotes
Robert Alexander Little No. 1 Naval Wing, No. 8 Squadron RNAS, No. 203 Squadron RAF 47 [2]
Roderic Stanley Dallas No. 1 Naval Wing, No. 1 Squadron RNAS, No. 40 Squadron RAF 39 [2]
Arthur Henry Cobby No. 4 Squadron AFC 29 [2]
Elwyn Roy King No. 4 Squadron AFC26 [2]
Alexander Augustus Pentland No. 16 Squadron RFC, No. 29 Squadron RFC, No. 19 Squadron RFC, No. 87 Squadron RAF 23 [2]
Edgar McCloughry No. 23 Squadron RFC, No. 4 Squadron AFC21 [2]
Richard Pearman Minifie No. 1 Naval Wing, No. 1 Squadron RNAS21 [2]
Edgar Charles Johnston No. 24 Squadron RFC, No. 88 Squadron RAF 20 [2]
Andrew King Cowper No. 24 Squadron RAF19 [2]
Cedric Ernest Howell No. 45 Squadron RAF19 [2]
Fred Parkinson Holliday No. 48 Squadron RFC 17 [2]

Australian-born; as a child, lived in UK and later moved to Canada before WW1

Allan Captain Hepburn No. 24 Squadron RFC, No. 40 Squadron RFC, No. 88 Squadron RAF16 [2]
Francis Ryan Smith No. 2 Squadron AFC16 [2]
John Rutherford Gordon No. 62 Squadron RAF15 [3]
Roy Cecil Phillipps No. 32 Squadron RFC, No. 2 Squadron AFC15 [2]
Arthur Coningham No. 32 Squadron RFC, No. 92 Squadron RAF14 [2]
Herbert Gilles Watson No. 4 Squadron AFC14 [2]
Harold Alan Hamersley No. 60 Squadron RFC13 [2]
Eric John Stephens No. 41 Squadron RAF 13 [2]
Thomas Charles Richmond Baker No. 4 Squadron AFC12 [2]
Raymond James Brownell No. 45 Squadron RFC 12 [2]
Roby Lewis Manuel No. 2 Squadron AFC12 [2]
Cecil Roy Richards No. 20 Squadron RFC 12 [2]
Leonard Thomas Eaton Taplin No. 67 Squadron RFC, No. 1 Squadron AFC, No. 4 Squadron AFC12 [2]
Henry Garnet Forrest No. 43 Squadron RFC, No. 32 Squadron RFC, No. 2 Squadron AFC 11 [2]
Geoffrey Herbert Hooper No. 11 Squadron RFC, No. 20 Squadron RAF 11 [2]
Geoffrey Forrest Hughes No. 62 Squadron RAF 11 [2]
Herbert Joseph Larkin No. 5 Squadron RFC, No. 87 Squadron RAF 11 [2]
Ross Macpherson Smith No. 67 Squadron RFC, No. 1 Squadron AFC11 [2]
Adrian Trevor Cole No. 1 Squadron AFC, No. 2 Squadron AFC10 [2]
Stanley James Goble No. 1 Naval Wing, No. 8 Squadron RNAS, No. 5 Squadron RNAS, No. 205 Squadron RAF 10 [2]
Alfred Seymour Shepherd No. 29 Squadron RFC10 [2]
Eric Douglas Cummings No. 2 Squadron AFC9 [2]
Arthur Thomas Drinkwater No. 57 Squadron RFC, No. 40 Squadron RAF9 [2]
Richard Watson Howard No. 68 Squadron RFC, No. 57 Squadron RFC, No. 2 Squadron AFC9 [2]
Gregory Hamilton BlaxlandNo. 2 Squadron AFC8 [2]
Clive Alexander Brewster-Joske No. 1 Squadron RFC, No. 46 Squadron RFC8 [2]
Roy Maxwell Drummond No. 67 Squadron RFC, No. 111 Squadron RFC 8 [2]
Garfield Finlay No. 1 Squadron AFC8 [4]
George Clifton Peters No. 1 Squadron AFC8 [2]
Richard Watson Howard No. 57 Squadron RFC, No. 68 Squadron RFC, No. 2 Squadron AFC8 [5]
George Goodman Simpson No. 8 Squadron RNAS 8 [6]
Leslie Sutherland No. 1 Squadron AFC8 [7]
Frank Alberry No. 2 Squadron AFC7 [2]
Thomas Henry Barkell No. 4 Squadron AFC7 [2]
Ernest Edgar Davies No. 2 Squadron AFC7 [2]
George Jones No. 4 Squadron AFC7 [2]
Edward Patrick Kenney No. 1 Squadron AFC7 [2]
Walter Kirk No. 1 Squadron AFC7 [8]
Paul Joseph McGinness No. 1 Squadron AFC7 [2]
Arthur John PalliserNo. 4 Squadron AFC7 [2]
George Clifton Peters No. 1 Squadron AFC7 [9]
Lancelot Lytton Richardson No. 25 Squadron RFC 7 [2]
Albert Ernest RobertsonNo. 4 Squadron AFC7 [2]
Charles Owen StoneNo. 2 Squadron AFC7 [10]
Norman Charles Trescowthick No. 4 Squadron AFC7 [2]
George H. D. Gossip No. 4 Squadron RNAS 6 [11]
John Hay No. 40 Squadron RFC 6 [2]
Philip Andrew JohnstonNo. 8 Squadron RNAS6 [12]
George Alexander Lingham No. 43 Squadron RAF6 [2]
Garnet Francis Malley No. 4 Squadron AFC6 [2]
Robert William McKenzie No. 2 Squadron AFC6 [2]
Harry Alexander Rigby No. 40 Squadron RFC, No. 1 Squadron RAF 6 [2]
Eric Landon SimonsonNo. 2 Squadron AFC6 [2]
Claud Robert James ThompsonNo. 19 Squadron RFC6 [2]
Albert Tonkin No. 1 Squadron AFC6 [13]
James Hamilton Traill No. 1 Squadron AFC6 [14]
William James Alexander Weir No. 1 Squadron AFC6 [15]
James Joseph Wellwood No. 2 Squadron AFC6 [2]
Allan Runciman Brown No. 1 Squadron AFC5 [2]
Alexander ClarkNo. 2 Squadron AFC5 [2]
George CoxNo. 2 Squadron AFC5 [2]
Sydney Dalrymple No. 24 Squadron RFC, No. 27 Squadron RFC, No. 139 Squadron RAF5 [16]
Herbert James EdwardsNo. 32 Squadron RFC, No. 92 Squadron RFC5 [2]
Wilmot Hudson Fysh No. 1 Squadron AFC, No. 67 Squadron RAF5 [17]
Walter Irving Newby Grant No. 88 Squadron RFC 5 [13]
Eustace Headlam No. 1 Squadron RFC, No. 2 Squadron RFC, No. 67 Squadron AFC5 [18]
Les Holden No. 2 Squadron AFC5 [2]
Ernest Mustard No. 1 Squadron AFC5 [19]
Patrick Gordon Taylor No. 66 Squadron RFC5 [20]
John Seymour Turnbull No. 56 Squadron RFC, No. 41 Squadron RAF 5 [21]

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ McGibbon 2000, p. 7.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 Newton 1996, pp. 60–61.
  3. ↑ Franks et al, pp. 20–21.
  4. ↑ Franks et al, p. 9.
  5. ↑ Shores et al, 1997, p. 200.
  6. ↑ Shores et al 1990, p. 339.
  7. ↑ Franks et al, 1997, p. 47.
  8. ↑ Franks et al, 1997, p. 29.
  9. ↑ Shores et al 1990, p. 302.
  10. ↑ Shores et al 1990, p. 353.
  11. ↑ Shores et al 1990, p. 173.
  12. ↑ Shores et al 1990, p. 214.
  13. 1 2 Morgan, Gareth (12 November 2021). "The Fighter Aces from Australia" (PDF). By the Seat of their Pants: The Proceedings of the Conference Held at the RAAF Museum Point Cook. Military History and Heritage Victoria. Retrieved 28 December 2021.
  14. ↑ Franks et al 1997, p. 50.
  15. ↑ Shores et al 1990, p. 56.
  16. ↑ Franks et al 1997, pp. 132–133.
  17. ↑ Franks et al 1997, p. 9.
  18. ↑ Franks et al 1990, p. 191.
  19. ↑ Shores et al 1997, p. 38.
  20. ↑ Franks 2012, p. 36.
  21. ↑ "Turnbull, John Semour". Virtual War Memorial. Retrieved 28 December 2021.

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