List of British fighter pilots in World War I.
The list of British fighter pilots in the First World War includes fighter pilots of the British Air Force or Navy in the First World War, which lasted from 1914 to 1918, who had at least 25 kills.
Overview
The table contains the British aviators with 25 or more confirmed kills
- Surname
- Rank
- Number of confirmed aerial victories
- Awards
- unit
- Date of death (†)
Note: The list can be sorted : By clicking on a column header, the list is sorted according to this column, clicking twice reverses the sorting.
Surname | image | rank | L. | Award | Unit / Squadron No. | † |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Edward Mannock | major | 61 | Victoria Cross | 74, 85 | July 26, 1918 | |
James McCudden | major | 57 | Victoria Cross | 56 | July 9, 1918 | |
George McElroy | Captain | 47 | 24 | July 31, 1918 | ||
Albert Ball | Captain | 44 | Victoria Cross | 56 | May 7, 1917 | |
Tom F. Hazell | major | 43 | 24 | September 4, 1946 | ||
Philip F. Fullard | Air Commodore | 40 | 1 | April 24, 1984 | ||
Charles George Gass | Squadron Leader | 39 | March 1977 | |||
John Inglis Gilmour | major | 39 | 27, 65 | February 24, 1928 | ||
James Ira Thomas Jones | Captain | 37 | 74 | August 30, 1960 | ||
Henry Winslow Woollett | Squadron Leader | 35 | 23 | October 31, 1969 | ||
Geoffrey Hilton Bowman | Captain | 32 | 29, 56 | March 25, 1970 | ||
Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson | Captain | 30th | 20, 22 | September 1918 | ||
Charles Dawson Booker | major | 29 | 201 | August 13, 1918 | ||
Percy Jack Clayson | Flight Lieutenant | 29 | 1 | |||
Leonard Henry Rochford | 29 | 17th December 1986 | ||||
John Everard Gurdon | 28 | 22nd | April 14, 1973 | |||
Dennis Latimer | 28 | 20th | ||||
Thomas Percy Middleton | Captain | 27 | 20th | |||
Ronald Malcolm Fletcher | Second lieutenant | 26th | 22nd | January 20, 1952 | ||
William Frederick James Harvey | Captain | 26th | 22nd | July 21, 1972 | ||
Gerald JC Maxwell | 26th | 56 | 18th December 1959 | |||
William Ernest Staton | Air Vice Marshal | 26th | 62 | July 22, 1983 | ||
Robert JO Compston | major | 25th | 40 | January 28, 1962 | ||
Arthur Rhys-Davids | Lieutenant | 25th | 56 | October 27, 1917 |
See also
- List of German fighter pilots in the First World War
- Austria-Hungary fighter pilot in World War I.
- List of Italian fighter pilots in World War I.
- List of French fighter pilots in World War I.
- List of Russian fighter pilots in World War I.
- List of Canadian fighter pilots in World War I.
- List of American fighter pilots in World War I.
literature
- Ezra Bowen: WWI fighter pilot. Publisher: Time Life.
- Arthur GJ Whitehouse: Aviator Aces 1914-1918 . Stuttgart 1970