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Posted: Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 02:55 AM UTC
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Posted: Friday, May 24, 2013 - 06:50 AM UTC
Is this man recovering from wounds? The uniform looks a little like the style worn in military hospitals...
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Posted: Friday, May 24, 2013 - 12:33 PM UTC
James McCudden?
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Posted: Friday, May 24, 2013 - 01:00 PM UTC
Not at the hospital and not James McCudden.
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Posted: Monday, May 27, 2013 - 08:22 AM UTC
Is it Albert Ball perhaps?
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Posted: Monday, May 27, 2013 - 09:12 AM UTC
Is it the ace of 74sqn 'Mick' Mannock?
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Posted: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 04:10 AM UTC

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Is it Albert Ball perhaps?


Not Capt. Ball
JackFlash
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Posted: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 04:11 AM UTC

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Is it the ace of 74sqn 'Mick' Mannock?


Not Mick.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 04:24 AM UTC
Looks like I have you all stumped with a true British Topgun.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 07:04 AM UTC
Lt. Andrews of 24 sqd? (My first guess.)

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Posted: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 07:07 AM UTC
Thinking further on this subject and if "topgun" is a hint. I would suggest Raymond Collinshaw, RNAS. though I have no good picture of him. But he was a true topgun.

Captn Tommy
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Posted: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 09:10 AM UTC
Without his Scots cap! Never! Not Andrews
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Thinking further on this subject and if "topgun" is a hint. I would suggest Raymond Collinshaw, RNAS. though I have no good picture of him. But he was a true topgun.

Captn Tommy


Not Collishaw and not any member of the black flight.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 11:43 AM UTC
Arthur Rhys-Davies?
JackFlash
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Posted: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 03:33 PM UTC
Not Rhys-Davies. We did him back in #5. Too Easy that!

Now the fellow we are focusing on here there is a Colonial knight of the first order. DSC & DFC.
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Posted: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 - 09:55 PM UTC
Hmmmm,

Is it Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor Highest ranking ace of South Africa?

Mikael
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Posted: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 02:55 AM UTC
Sorry Mikael it is not Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor Highest ranking ace of South Africa.
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Posted: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 06:25 AM UTC
Ah – then it might be the other fellow South African – William Lancelot Jordan? He did recieve the DSC and the DFC...

Mikael
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Posted: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 - 07:11 AM UTC
Thank You Mikael!

Ladies and Gentlemen please meet Captain William Lancelot Jordan DSC & Bar, DFC (3 December 1896 – 1931). He was a South African World War I flying ace credited with 39 victories


This soldier had many distinctions in his career one notable one here is that he was the top ace in bringing down Fokker Dr.I aircraft (5 credited victories). (N)8 and 208 RAF. RNAS 8 became No. 208 Squadron of the Royal Air Force when the latter was founded by amalgamation of the RNAS and the Royal Flying Corps on 1 April 1918. Jordan thus scored 18 victories for the RNAS and 21 for the RAF without changing squadrons. His official score totaled 6 aircraft destroyed (with a further 5 shared destroyed), and 14 'out of control' (with a further 14 shared 'out of control'). Jordan was removed from operations before the end of the war, and thus survived.

"Sopwith Camel Aces of World War I" by Denes Bernad, Norman Franks. Osprey Publishing, 2003. ISBN 1-84176-534-1, ISBN 978-1-84176-534-1
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