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This is a list of [[flying ace]]s in [[World War I]] from [[Canada]]. A [[flying ace]] is a [[military aviation|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 (1918-1920)|Canadian Air Force]] on September 19, 1918.
This is a list of [[flying ace]]s in [[World War I]] from [[Canada]]. A [[flying ace]] is a [[military aviation|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 (1918-1920)|Canadian Air Force]] on September 19, 1918.


For a master list of victories during the conflict, see [[List of World War I flying aces]].
For a master list of victories during the conflict, see [[List of World War I flying aces]].


==Canadian WWI aces==
==Canadian World War I aces==

===More than 10 victories===
===More than 10 victories===
{{stack|
{{stack|
[[File:BillyBishop.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Billy Bishop]]
[[File:BillyBishop.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Billy Bishop]]
[[File:Collisaw.JPG|thumb|right|upright|Raymond Collishaw]]
[[File:Collishaw-Cockpit-Jul1918-CWM 19930012-308 (O.2860).jpg|thumb|right|upright|Raymond Collishaw]]
[[File:Wilfrid R. "Wop" May.jpg|thumb|right|upright|"Wop" May]]
[[File:Wilfrid R. "Wop" May.jpg|thumb|right|upright|"Wop" May]]
}}
}}
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|| 72
|| 72
|| 21, 60, 85
|| 21, 60, 85
|| [[Victoria Cross|VC]]
|| [[Victoria Cross|VC]] (1894-1956)
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Raymond|Collishaw}}
|| {{sortname|Raymond|Collishaw}}
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|| 60
|| 60
|| 10N, 13N, 3W (RNAS); 47, 203 (RAF)
|| 10N, 13N, 3W (RNAS); 47, 203 (RAF)
||
|| (1893-1976)
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Donald Roderick|MacLaren}}
|| {{sortname|Donald Roderick|MacLaren}}
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|| 54
|| 54
|| 46
|| 46
|| (1893-1988)
⚫
||
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|William George|Barker}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|William George|Barker}}
|| Major
|| Major
|| 50
|| 50
|| 4, 9, 15, 28, 66 (RFC); 139, 201 (RAF)
|| 4, 9, 15, 28, 66 (RFC); 139, 201 (RAF)
|| {{postnom|VC|DSO|MC}}. Killed in aircraft accident 1930
|| [[Victoria Cross|VC]]
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Alfred Clayburn|Atkey}}
|| {{sortname|Alfred Clayburn|Atkey}}
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|| 38
|| 38
|| 18, 22
|| 18, 22
|| (1894-1971)
⚫
||
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|William Gordon|Claxton}}
|| {{sortname|William Gordon|Claxton}}
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||
||
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|Charles|Hickey}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|Charles|Hickey|Charles Hickey (aviator)}}
|| Captain
|| Captain
|| 21
|| 21
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|| Head of British Intelligence in the Western Hemisphere during World War II
|| Head of British Intelligence in the Western Hemisphere during World War II
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Melville Wells|Waddington}}
|| [[Melville Waddington|Melville Wells Waddington]]
|| Lieutenant
|| Lieutenant
|| 12
|| 12
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||
||
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|William James Arthur|Duncan}}
|| [[Art Duncan]]
|| Captain
|| Captain
|| 11
|| 11
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||
||
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Robert|Dodds}}
|| {{sortname|Robert|Dodds|link=Robert Dodds (aviator)}}
|| Captain
|| Captain
|| 10
|| 10
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|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|Bernard Paul Gascoigne|Beanlands}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|Bernard Paul Gascoigne|Beanlands}}
||Captain
|Captain
||9
|9
||24, 70
|24, 70
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|William Henry|Brown}}
| {{sortname|William Henry|Brown|dab=aviator}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||9
|9
||84
|84
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|George William|Bulmer}}
| {{sortname|George William|Bulmer}}
||Captain
|Captain
||9
|9
||22
|22
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Leonard Arthur|Christian}}
| {{sortname|Leonard Arthur|Christian}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||9
|9
||6N (RNAS); 206 (RAF)
|6N (RNAS); 206 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Richard Jeffries|Dawes}}
| {{sortname|Richard Jeffries|Dawes}}
||Captain
|Captain
||9
|9
||28, 45
|28, 45
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|Roger Amedee|Del'Haye}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|Roger Amedee|Del'Haye}}
||Captain
|Captain
||9
|9
||13, 19
|13, 19
||
|
|-
|-
|| George Clapham Dixon
| George Clapham Dixon
||Captain
|Captain
||9
|9
||40, 43, 85
|40, 43, 85
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|James Henry|Forman}}
| {{sortname|James Henry|Forman}}
||Captain
|Captain
||9
|9
||1N, 6N (RNAS); 70, 201 (RAF)
|1N, 6N (RNAS); 70, 201 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Acheson|Goulding}}
| {{sortname|Acheson|Goulding}}
||Captain
|Captain
||9
|9
||17 (RFC); 150 (RAF)
|17 (RFC); 150 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Harold Spencer|Kerby}}
| {{sortname|Harold Spencer|Kerby}}
||Captain
|Captain
||9
|9
||3N, 9N, 3W (RNAS); Walmer HD
|3N, 9N, 3W (RNAS); Walmer HD
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|David MacKay|McGoun}}
| {{sortname|David MacKay|McGoun}}
||Captain
|Captain
||9
|9
||20, 22
|20, 22
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|William Wendell|Rogers}}
| {{sortname|William Wendell|Rogers}}
||Captain
|Captain
||9
|9
||1
|1
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Ernest James|Salter}}
| {{sortname|Ernest James|Salter}}
||Captain
|Captain
||9
|9
||54
|54
||
|
|-
|-
|| Anthony George Allen Spence
| Anthony George Allen Spence
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||9
|9
||1N (RNAS); 201 (RAF)
|1N (RNAS); 201 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
|| Louis Mark Thompson
| Louis Mark Thompson
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||9
|9
||62
|62
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Kenneth Bowman|Watson}}
| {{sortname|Kenneth Bowman|Watson}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||9
|9
||28, 70
|28, 70
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|William Benson|Craig}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|William Benson|Craig}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||8
|8
||4N (RNAS); 204 (RAF)
|4N (RNAS); 204 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| John Dartnell De Pencier
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| John Dartnell De Pencier
||Captain
|Captain
||8
|8
||19 (RFC); 12 (RAF)
|19 (RFC); 12 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|William|Durrand, Jr.}}
| {{sortname|William|Durrand, Jr.}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||8
|8
||20
|20
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Austin Lloyd|Fleming}}
| {{sortname|Austin Lloyd|Fleming}}
||Captain
|Captain
||8
|8
||46, 111
|46, 111
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|D'Arcy Fowlis|Hilton}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|D'Arcy Fowlis|Hilton}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||8
|8
||29
|29
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Ernest Graham|Joy}}
| {{sortname|Ernest Graham|Joy}}
||Major
|Major
||8
|8
||49, 57 (RFC); 205 (RAF)
|49, 57 (RFC); 205 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|Kenneth William|Junor}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|Kenneth William|Junor}}
||Captain
|Captain
||8
|8
||56
|56
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|Arthur Gerald|Knight}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|Arthur Gerald|Knight}}
||Captain
|Captain
||8
|8
||4, 24, 29
|4, 24, 29
||[[Manfred von Richthofen]] (the Red Baron)'s 13th victim.
|[[Manfred von Richthofen]] (the Red Baron)'s 13th victim.
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|William Myron|MacDonald}}
| {{sortname|William Myron|MacDonald}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||8
|8
||66
|66
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Reginald George|Malcolm}}
| {{sortname|Reginald George|Malcolm}}
||Captain
|Captain
||8
|8
||25
|25
||
|
|-
|-
|| George Ivan Douglas Marks
| George Ivan Douglas Marks
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||8
|8
||23
|23
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Roderick|McDonald}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Roderick|McDonald|dab=aviator}}
||Captain
|Captain
||8
|8
||8N (RNAS); 208 (RAF)
|8N (RNAS); 208 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
|| William Jackson Rutherford
| William Jackson Rutherford
||Captain
|Captain
||8
|8
||60
|60
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|John Edward|Sharman}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|John Edward|Sharman}}
||Flight Commander
|Flight Commander
||8
|8
||3W, 10N
|3W, 10N
||
|
|-
|-
|| John Henry Smith
| John Henry Smith
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||8
|8
||46
|46
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|Langley Frank Willard|Smith}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|Langley Frank Willard|Smith}}
||Flight Sub Lieutenant
|Flight Sub-lieutenant
||8
|8
||4N (RNAS)
|4N (RNAS)
||
|
⚫
|-
|Alexander Gordon Tyrrell
|Lieutenant
⚫
|8
|73
⚫
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|Claude Melnot|Wilson}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"| {{sortname|Claude Melnot|Wilson}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||8
|8
||25, 29, 93
|25, 29, 93
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Alan Duncan|Bell-Irving}}
| {{sortname|Alan Duncan|Bell-Irving}}
||Captain
|Captain
||7
|7
||7, 60
|7, 60
||
|
|-
|-
|| Thomas James Birmingham
| Thomas James Birmingham
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||22
|22
||
|
|-
|-
|| Cecil Guelph Brock
| Cecil Guelph Brock
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||1N, 9N (RNAS); 3, 209 (RAF)
|1N, 9N (RNAS); 3, 209 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|David Luther|Burgess}}
| {{sortname|David Luther|Burgess}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||25
|25
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Lynn|Campbell}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Lynn|Campbell}}
||Captain
|Captain
||7
|7
||62
|62
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Ernest Francis Hartley|Davis}}
|{{sortname|Ernest Francis Hartley|Davis}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||41
|41
||
|
|-
|-
|| {{sortname|Clennell Haggerston|Dickins}}
| {{sortname|Clennell Haggerston|Dickins}}
||2nd Lieutenant
|2nd Lieutenant
||7
|7
||211
|211
||Named an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] in 1935, an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1968
|Named an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] in 1935, an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1968
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Conway |Farrell}}
|{{sortname|Conway |Farrell}}
||Captain
|Captain
||7
|7
||24, 56
|24, 56
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|George Buchanan|Foster}}
|{{sortname|George Buchanan|Foster}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||24
|24
|Named an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] in 1946
⚫
||
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Eric Charlton|Gilroy}}
|{{sortname|Eric Charlton|Gilroy}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||11
|11
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|William Carrall|Hilborn}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|William Carrall|Hilborn}}
||Captain
|Captain
||7
|7
||28, 45, 66
|28, 45, 66
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Jeffrey Batters|Home-Hay}}
|{{sortname|Jeffrey Batters|Home-Hay}}
||Captain
|Captain
||7
|7
||53, 104
|53, 104
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Arthur|Jarvis}}
|{{sortname|Arthur|Jarvis}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||17 (RFC); 150 (RAF)
|17 (RFC); 150 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Archie Nathaniel|Jenks}}
|{{sortname|Archie Nathaniel|Jenks}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||20
|20
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Harold Waddell|Joslyn}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Harold Waddell|Joslyn}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||20
|20
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Alfred Alexander|Leitch}}
|{{sortname|Alfred Alexander|Leitch}}
||Captain
|Captain
||7
|7
||43, 65
|43, 65
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Malcolm Plaw|MacLeod}}
|{{sortname|Malcolm Plaw|MacLeod}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||41
|41
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Roy Kirkwood|McConnell}}
|{{sortname|Roy Kirkwood|McConnell}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||46
|46
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Ernest Thomas|Morrow}}
|[[Ernest Morrow (aviator)|Ernest Morrow]]
||Captain
|Captain
||7
|7
||62
|62
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|John Albert|Page}}
|{{sortname|John Albert|Page}}
||Flight Lieutenant
|Flight Lieutenant
||7
|7
||3N, 10N
|3N, 10N
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Stanley Asa|Puffer}}
|{{sortname|Stanley Asa|Puffer}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||41
|41
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Lewis Hector|Ray}}
|{{sortname|Lewis Hector|Ray}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||19
|19
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Emerson|Smith}}
|{{sortname|Emerson|Smith}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||45
|45
||Shot down by [[Joachim von Busse]] of Jasta 3 on 26 October 1917, captured.
|Shot down by [[Joachim von Busse]] of Jasta 3 on 26 October 1917, captured.
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Merrill Samuel|Taylor}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Merrill Samuel|Taylor}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||7
|7
||9N (RNAS); 209 (RAF)
|9N (RNAS); 209 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Percival Ewart|Appleby}}
|{{sortname|Percival Ewart|Appleby}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||6
|6
||104
|104
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Henry Gordon|Clappison}}
|{{sortname|Henry Gordon|Clappison}}
||Captain
|Captain
||6
|6
||4N (RNAS); 204 (RAF)
|4N (RNAS); 204 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Irving Banfield|Corey}}
|{{sortname|Irving Banfield|Corey}}
||2nd Lieutenant
|2nd Lieutenant
||6
|6
||103
|103
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Earl Frederick|Crabb}}
|{{sortname|Earl Frederick|Crabb}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||6
|6
||92
|92
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|John Elmer|Drummond}}
|{{sortname|John Elmer|Drummond}}
||Captain
|Captain
||6
|6
||22, 48
|22, 48
||
|
|-
|-
|| Herbert Howard Snowden Fowler
| Herbert Howard Snowden Fowler
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||6
|6
||8N, 12N (RNAS); 208 (RAF)
|8N, 12N (RNAS); 208 (RAF)
||Discharged from the RAF when it was determined that he was almost completely deaf.
|Discharged from the RAF when it was determined that he was almost completely deaf.
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Daniel Murray Bayne|Galbraith}}
|{{sortname|Daniel Murray Bayne|Galbraith}}
||Captain
|Captain
||6
|6
||8N, 1W
|8N, 1W
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Ernest Tilton Sumpter|Kelly}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Ernest Tilton Sumpter|Kelly}}
||2nd Lieutenant
|2nd Lieutenant
||6
|6
||1
|1
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Earl Stanley|Meek}}
|{{sortname|Earl Stanley|Meek}}
||Captain
|Captain
||6
|6
||29
|29
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Norman Craig|Millman}}
|{{sortname|Norman Craig|Millman}}
||Captain
|Captain
||6
|6
||48
|48
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Gerald Ewart|Nash}}
|{{sortname|Gerald Ewart|Nash}}
||Flight Lieutenant
|Flight Lieutenant
||6
|6
||10N
|10N
||Shot down by [[Karl Allmenröder]] of Jasta 11, captured
|Shot down by [[Karl Allmenröder]] of Jasta 11, captured
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Medley Kingdon|Parlee}}
|{{sortname|Medley Kingdon|Parlee}}
||2nd Lieutenant
|2nd Lieutenant
||6
|6
||22
|22
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|William Keith|Swayze}}
|{{sortname|William Keith|Swayze}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||6
|6
||62
|62
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Harry Lutz|Symons}}
|{{sortname|Harry Lutz|Symons}}
||Captain
|Captain
||6
|6
||65
|65
||
|
|-
|{{sortname|Victor Wentworth|Thompson}}
|Lieutenant
|6
|43, 64
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|George Leonard|Trapp}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|George Leonard|Trapp}}
||Flight Sub-Lieutenant
|Flight Sub-Lieutenant
||6
|6
||10N
|10N
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Harry Ellis|Watson}}
|{{sortname|Harry Ellis|Watson}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||6
|6
||41
|41
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Harry Alison|Wood|Harry Wood (aviator)}}
|{{sortname|Harry Alison|Wood|Harry Wood (aviator)}}
||Major
|Major
||6
|6
||24
|24
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|George Benson|Anderson}}
|{{sortname|George Benson|Anderson}}
||Flight Lieutenant
|Flight Lieutenant
||5
|5
||3N, 3W (RNAS)
|3N, 3W (RNAS)
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Louis Drummond|Bawlf}}
|{{sortname|Louis Drummond|Bawlf}}
||Captain
|Captain
||5
|5
||3N (RNAS); 203 (RAF)
|3N (RNAS); 203 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|George Walker|Blaiklock}}
|{{sortname|George Walker|Blaiklock}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||5
|5
||45
|45
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|William Otway|Boger}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|William Otway|Boger}}
||Captain
|Captain
||5
|5
||11, 56, 92
|11, 56, 92
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Edward Borgfeldt|Booth}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Edward Borgfeldt|Booth}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||5
|5
||70
|70
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|William Eric|Bottrill}}
|{{sortname|William Eric|Bottrill}}
||2nd Lieutenant
|2nd Lieutenant
||5
|5
||104
|104
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Harry Neville|Compton}}
|{{sortname|Harry Neville|Compton}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||5
|5
||23
|23
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|John Bonnicher|Crompton}}
|{{sortname|John Bonnicher|Crompton}}
||Captain
|Captain
||5
|5
||60
|60
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Lumsden|Cummings}}
|{{sortname|Lumsden|Cummings}}
||Captain
|Captain
||5
|5
||1
|1
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Chester Stairs|Duffus}}
|{{sortname|Chester Stairs|Duffus}}
||Major
|Major
||5
|5
||22, 25
|22, 25
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Edward Carter|Eaton}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Edward Carter|Eaton}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||5
|5
||65
|65
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|William Boyd|Elliott}}
|{{sortname|William Boyd|Elliott}}
||Captain
|Captain
||5
|5
||103 (RFC); 205 (RAF)
|103 (RFC); 205 (RAF)
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|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Sydney Emerson|Ellis}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|Sydney Emerson|Ellis}}
||Flight Sub Lieutenant
|Flight Sub-lieutenant
||5
|5
||4N (RNAS)
|4N (RNAS)
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|George William Gladstone|Gauld}}
|{{sortname|George William Gladstone|Gauld}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||5
|5
||74
|74
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|John Gordon|Gillanders}}
|{{sortname|John Gordon|Gillanders}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||5
|5
||18, 103
|18, 103
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|William John|Gillespie}}
|{{sortname|William John|Gillespie}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||5
|5
||41
|41
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Edward Rochfort|Grange}}
|{{sortname|Edward Rochfort|Grange}}
||Flight Lieutenant
|Flight Lieutenant
||5
|5
||8N, 1W (RNAS); 208 (RAF)
|8N, 1W (RNAS); 208 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Hugh Bradford|Griffith}}
|{{sortname|Hugh Bradford|Griffith}}
||Captain
|Captain
||5
|5
||11, 20, 48
|11, 20, 48
||
|
|-
|-
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|John Playford|Hales}}
|style="background:#e3d9ff;"|{{sortname|John Playford|Hales}}
||Captain
|Captain
||5
|5
||9N (RNAS); 203 (RAF)
|9N (RNAS); 203 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Joseph Eskel|Hallonquist}}
|{{sortname|Joseph Eskel|Hallonquist}}
||Captain
|Captain
||5
|5
||28
|28
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Earl McNabb|Hand}}
|{{sortname|Earl McNabb|Hand}}
||Captain
|Captain
||5
|5
||45, 71, 73
|45, 71, 73
||Shot down and captured on 1 June 1918
|Shot down and captured on 1 June 1918
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Conrad Tolendal|Lally}}
|{{sortname|Conrad Tolendal|Lally}}
||Captain
|Captain
||5
|5
||25
|25
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Robert Hazen|Little}}
|{{sortname|Robert Hazen|Little}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||5
|5
||20, 48
|20, 48
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Ross Morrison|MacDonald}}
|{{sortname|Ross Morrison|MacDonald}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||5
|5
||15, 87
|15, 87
||Shot down and captured on 29 September 1918
|Shot down and captured on 29 September 1918
|-
|-
||{{sortname|John Finlay Noel|MacRae}}
|{{sortname|John Finlay Noel|MacRae}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||5
|5
||23
|23
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Patrick Sarsfield|Manley}}
|{{sortname|Patrick Sarsfield|Manley}}
||2nd Lieutenant
|2nd Lieutenant
||5
|5
||62
|62
||Shot down and captured on 27 September 1918
|Shot down and captured on 27 September 1918
|-
|-
||{{sortname|William Drummond|Matheson}}
|{{sortname|William Drummond|Matheson}}
||Captain
|Captain
||5
|5
||25
|25
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|John Harry|McNeaney}}
|{{sortname|John Harry|McNeaney}}
||Captain
|Captain
||5
|5
||79
|79
||Only Canadian ace in 79 Squadron
|Only Canadian ace in 79 Squadron
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Russell Fern|McRae}}
|{{sortname|Russell Fern|McRae}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||5
|5
||4 (AFC); 46 (RFC)
|4 (AFC); 46 (RFC)
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Harold Arthur Sydney|Molyneux}}
|{{sortname|Harold Arthur Sydney|Molyneux}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||5
|5
||56, 60
|56, 60
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Harold Edgar|Mott}}
|{{sortname|Harold Edgar|Mott}}
||Captain
|Captain
||5
|5
||9N (RNAS)
|9N (RNAS)
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Redford Henry|Mulock}}
|{{sortname|Redford Henry|Mulock}}
||Colonel
|Colonel
||5
|5
||3N, 1W, 82W
|3N, 1W, 82W
||First Canadian and first RNAS ace of the war
|First Canadian and first RNAS ace of the war
|-
|-
||{{sortname|John Edwardes|Pugh}}
|{{sortname|John Edwardes|Pugh}}
||Captain
|Captain
||5
|5
||25
|25
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|John Bernard|Russell}}
|{{sortname|John Bernard|Russell}}
||2nd Lieutenant
|2nd Lieutenant
||5
|5
||103
|103
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|James Robert|Smith|James Robert Smith (pilot)}}
|{{sortname|James Robert|Smith|James Robert Smith (pilot)}}
||2nd Lieutenant
|2nd Lieutenant
||5
|5
||18, 33, 51, 78
|18, 33, 51, 78
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|George Arthur|Welsh}}
|{{sortname|George Arthur|Welsh}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||5
|5
||210 (RAF)
|210 (RAF)
||
|
|-
|-
||{{sortname|Robert Kenneth|Whitney}}
|{{sortname|Robert Kenneth|Whitney}}
||Lieutenant
|Lieutenant
||5
|5
||60
|60
||
|
|}
|}

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==See also==
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*[[List of Canadian air aces]]


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/index.php Canadian Aces of World War I]
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*[http://jpgleize.club.fr/aces/ww1can.htm Canadian aces of WWI]. Accessed 12 June 2008.
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*[http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/aces/aces.htm#wwi Fighter Pilot Aces List]. Accessed 12 June 2008.
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*[http://users.accesscomm.ca/magnusfamily/ww1can.htm Canada - World War One]. Accessed 12 June 2008.


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Latest revision as of 05:41, 15 December 2022

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 19, 1918.

For a master list of victories during the conflict, see List of World War I flying aces.

Canadian World War I aces

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More than 10 victories

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Billy Bishop
Raymond Collishaw
"Wop" May

  This indicates that the pilot was either killed in action or killed in a flying accident.

Name Rank Victories Unit(s) Notes
Billy Bishop Lieutenant Colonel 72 21, 60, 85 VC (1894-1956)
Raymond Collishaw Lieutenant Colonel 60 10N, 13N, 3W (RNAS); 47, 203 (RAF) (1893-1976)
Donald Roderick MacLaren Major 54 46 (1893-1988)
William George Barker Major 50 4, 9, 15, 28, 66 (RFC); 139, 201 (RAF) VC DSO MC. Killed in aircraft accident 1930
Alfred Clayburn Atkey Captain 38 18, 22 (1894-1971)
William Gordon Claxton Captain 37 41
Joseph Stewart Temple Fall Flight Commander 36 3N, 9N (RNAS)
Frederick Robert Gordon McCall Captain 35 13, 41
Frank Granger Quigley Captain 33 70
Andrew Edward McKeever Lieutenant Colonel 31 11
Albert Desbrisay Carter Major 28 19
Reginald Hoidge Captain 28 1, 56
Clifford MacKay McEwen Lieutenant 27 28
Frank Ormond Soden Captain 27 41, 60
Arthur Whealy Captain 27 3N, 9N, 3W (RNAS); 203 (RAF)
William McKenzie Thomson Captain 26 20
Stanley Wallace Rosevear Captain 25 1 Naval (RNAS); 201 (RAF)
William Ernest Shields Captain 24 41
William Melville Alexander Captain 22 10N, 3W (RNAS); 210 (RAF)
Joseph Leonard Maries White Captain 22 65
Harold Leslie Edwards 2nd Lieutenant 21 20
Charles Hickey Captain 21 4N (RNAS); 204 (RAF)
Kenneth Burns Conn Lieutenant 20 88
Camille Lagesse Captain 20 29
Arthur Bradfield Fairclough Captain 19 19, 23
Ellis Vair Reid Flight Sub Lieutenant 19 3W; 10N
George Chisholm MacKay Captain 18 13N (RNAS); 213 (RAF)
Alfred Williams Carter Major 17 3N, 10N, 3W (RNAS); 210 (RAF)
Stearne Tighe Edwards Captain 17 2N, 6N, 9N, 11N; 3W (RNAS); 209 (RAF)
Carl Frederick Falkenberg Captain 17 84
Gerald Gordon Bell Captain 16 17, 22, 47 (RFC); 150 (RAF)
Henry John Burden Captain 16 56, 72, 85
James Alpheus Glen Captain 15 3N, 10N (RNAS); 203 (RAF)
John Edmund Greene Captain 15 13N (RNAS); 213 (RAF)
Carleton Main Clement Captain 14 22
Albert Earl Godfrey Captain 14 10, 25, 40, 44, 78
John Victor Sorsoleil Captain 14 84
George Thomson Lieutenant 14 22
Hazel LeRoy Wallace Captain 14 9N (RNAS); 3, 201 (RAF)
Thomas Frederic Williams Captain 14 28, 45 Founding member of RCAF; elected to Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame
Frederick Carr Armstrong Flight Commander 13 3N; 3W (RNAS)
Wilfred Austin Curtis Flight Commander 13 6N, 10N Elected to Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame
George Robert Howsam Captain 13 43, 70 Retired as Air Vice-Marshal of RCAF
Ernest Charles Hoy Captain 13 29 Made the first airmail flight over the Canadian Rockies 7 August 1919
Harold Byrn Hudson Lieutenant 13 28, 45
Ronald McNeill Keirstead Captain 13 4N (RNAS); 204 (RAF)
John Gerald Manuel Captain 13 10N, 12N (RNAS); 210 (RAF)
Wilfrid Reid May Captain 13 209
Stanley Stanger Captain 13 28, 66
Gerald Alfred Birks Lieutenant 12 66
Edwin Claude Bromley Lieutenant 12 22
William Leeming Harrison Captain 12 1, 40
William Henry Hubbard Captain 12 5, 7, 73
Gordon Budd Irving Captain 12 19
William Stanley Jenkins Captain 12 210 (RAF)
Roy Manzer Captain 12 84
Douglas McGregor Captain 12 23
Henry Coyle Rath Lieutenant 12 29
Alexander MacDonald Shook Major 12 4N (RNAS); 204 (RAF)
William Samuel Stephenson Captain 12 73 Head of British Intelligence in the Western Hemisphere during World War II
Melville Wells Waddington Lieutenant 12 20
James Butler White Captain 12 8N (RNAS); 208 (RAF)
Fred Everest Banbury Captain 11 9N (RNAS)
Arnold Jacques Chadwick Flight Commander 11 4N, 5W (RNAS)
Hiram Frank Davison Lieutenant 11 22
Art Duncan Captain 11 60
Charles D. B. Green Lieutenant 11 47 (RFC); 150 (RAF)
William Roy Irwin Captain 11 56
Mansell Richard James Captain 11 45
George Owen Johnson Captain 11 24, 84
Harold Anthony Oaks Captain 11 48 Elected to Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame
Hilliard Brooke Bell Captain 10 66
Lloyd Samuel Breadner Major 10 3W, 3N (RNAS); 204 (RAF) Air Chief Marshal Breadner achieved the highest rank ever awarded in the RCAF
Arthur Roy Brown Captain 10 4N, 9N, 11N (RNAS); 209 (RAF) Credited with shooting down Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron)
Frederick Elliott Brown Captain 10 2, 84
Robert Dodds Captain 10 48
Alfred Michael Koch Lieutenant 10 1, 6, 70
John Joseph Malone Flight Sub-Lieutenant 10 3N, 3W (RNAS)
Alfred Edwin McKay Captain 10 23, 24
Guy Borthwick Moore Captain 10 1
Frank Harold Taylor Lieutenant 10 41, 84
John Henry Tudhope Captain 10 40

Fewer than 10 victories

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Name Rank Victories Unit(s) Notes
Bernard Paul Gascoigne Beanlands Captain 9 24, 70
William Henry Brown Lieutenant 9 84
George William Bulmer Captain 9 22
Leonard Arthur Christian Lieutenant 9 6N (RNAS); 206 (RAF)
Richard Jeffries Dawes Captain 9 28, 45
Roger Amedee Del'Haye Captain 9 13, 19
George Clapham Dixon Captain 9 40, 43, 85
James Henry Forman Captain 9 1N, 6N (RNAS); 70, 201 (RAF)
Acheson Goulding Captain 9 17 (RFC); 150 (RAF)
Harold Spencer Kerby Captain 9 3N, 9N, 3W (RNAS); Walmer HD
David MacKay McGoun Captain 9 20, 22
William Wendell Rogers Captain 9 1
Ernest James Salter Captain 9 54
Anthony George Allen Spence Lieutenant 9 1N (RNAS); 201 (RAF)
Louis Mark Thompson Lieutenant 9 62
Kenneth Bowman Watson Lieutenant 9 28, 70
William Benson Craig Lieutenant 8 4N (RNAS); 204 (RAF)
John Dartnell De Pencier Captain 8 19 (RFC); 12 (RAF)
William Durrand, Jr. Lieutenant 8 20
Austin Lloyd Fleming Captain 8 46, 111
D'Arcy Fowlis Hilton Lieutenant 8 29
Ernest Graham Joy Major 8 49, 57 (RFC); 205 (RAF)
Kenneth William Junor Captain 8 56
Arthur Gerald Knight Captain 8 4, 24, 29 Manfred von Richthofen (the Red Baron)'s 13th victim.
William Myron MacDonald Lieutenant 8 66
Reginald George Malcolm Captain 8 25
George Ivan Douglas Marks Lieutenant 8 23
Roderick McDonald Captain 8 8N (RNAS); 208 (RAF)
William Jackson Rutherford Captain 8 60
John Edward Sharman Flight Commander 8 3W, 10N
John Henry Smith Lieutenant 8 46
Langley Frank Willard Smith Flight Sub-lieutenant 8 4N (RNAS)
Alexander Gordon Tyrrell Lieutenant 8 73
Claude Melnot Wilson Lieutenant 8 25, 29, 93
Alan Duncan Bell-Irving Captain 7 7, 60
Thomas James Birmingham Lieutenant 7 22
Cecil Guelph Brock Lieutenant 7 1N, 9N (RNAS); 3, 209 (RAF)
David Luther Burgess Lieutenant 7 25
Lynn Campbell Captain 7 62
Ernest Francis Hartley Davis Lieutenant 7 41
Clennell Haggerston Dickins 2nd Lieutenant 7 211 Named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1935, an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1968
Conway Farrell Captain 7 24, 56
George Buchanan Foster Lieutenant 7 24 Named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1946
Eric Charlton Gilroy Lieutenant 7 11
William Carrall Hilborn Captain 7 28, 45, 66
Jeffrey Batters Home-Hay Captain 7 53, 104
Arthur Jarvis Lieutenant 7 17 (RFC); 150 (RAF)
Archie Nathaniel Jenks Lieutenant 7 20
Harold Waddell Joslyn Lieutenant 7 20
Alfred Alexander Leitch Captain 7 43, 65
Malcolm Plaw MacLeod Lieutenant 7 41
Roy Kirkwood McConnell Lieutenant 7 46
Ernest Morrow Captain 7 62
John Albert Page Flight Lieutenant 7 3N, 10N
Stanley Asa Puffer Lieutenant 7 41
Lewis Hector Ray Lieutenant 7 19
Emerson Smith Lieutenant 7 45 Shot down by Joachim von Busse of Jasta 3 on 26 October 1917, captured.
Merrill Samuel Taylor Lieutenant 7 9N (RNAS); 209 (RAF)
Percival Ewart Appleby Lieutenant 6 104
Henry Gordon Clappison Captain 6 4N (RNAS); 204 (RAF)
Irving Banfield Corey 2nd Lieutenant 6 103
Earl Frederick Crabb Lieutenant 6 92
John Elmer Drummond Captain 6 22, 48
Herbert Howard Snowden Fowler Lieutenant 6 8N, 12N (RNAS); 208 (RAF) Discharged from the RAF when it was determined that he was almost completely deaf.
Daniel Murray Bayne Galbraith Captain 6 8N, 1W
Ernest Tilton Sumpter Kelly 2nd Lieutenant 6 1
Earl Stanley Meek Captain 6 29
Norman Craig Millman Captain 6 48
Gerald Ewart Nash Flight Lieutenant 6 10N Shot down by Karl Allmenröder of Jasta 11, captured
Medley Kingdon Parlee 2nd Lieutenant 6 22
William Keith Swayze Lieutenant 6 62
Harry Lutz Symons Captain 6 65
Victor Wentworth Thompson Lieutenant 6 43, 64
George Leonard Trapp Flight Sub-Lieutenant 6 10N
Harry Ellis Watson Lieutenant 6 41
Harry Alison Wood Major 6 24
George Benson Anderson Flight Lieutenant 5 3N, 3W (RNAS)
Louis Drummond Bawlf Captain 5 3N (RNAS); 203 (RAF)
George Walker Blaiklock Lieutenant 5 45
William Otway Boger Captain 5 11, 56, 92
Edward Borgfeldt Booth Lieutenant 5 70
William Eric Bottrill 2nd Lieutenant 5 104
Harry Neville Compton Lieutenant 5 23
John Bonnicher Crompton Captain 5 60
Lumsden Cummings Captain 5 1
Chester Stairs Duffus Major 5 22, 25
Edward Carter Eaton Lieutenant 5 65
William Boyd Elliott Captain 5 103 (RFC); 205 (RAF)
Sydney Emerson Ellis Flight Sub-lieutenant 5 4N (RNAS)
George William Gladstone Gauld Lieutenant 5 74
John Gordon Gillanders Lieutenant 5 18, 103
William John Gillespie Lieutenant 5 41
Edward Rochfort Grange Flight Lieutenant 5 8N, 1W (RNAS); 208 (RAF)
Hugh Bradford Griffith Captain 5 11, 20, 48
John Playford Hales Captain 5 9N (RNAS); 203 (RAF)
Joseph Eskel Hallonquist Captain 5 28
Earl McNabb Hand Captain 5 45, 71, 73 Shot down and captured on 1 June 1918
Conrad Tolendal Lally Captain 5 25
Robert Hazen Little Lieutenant 5 20, 48
Ross Morrison MacDonald Lieutenant 5 15, 87 Shot down and captured on 29 September 1918
John Finlay Noel MacRae Lieutenant 5 23
Patrick Sarsfield Manley 2nd Lieutenant 5 62 Shot down and captured on 27 September 1918
William Drummond Matheson Captain 5 25
John Harry McNeaney Captain 5 79 Only Canadian ace in 79 Squadron
Russell Fern McRae Lieutenant 5 4 (AFC); 46 (RFC)
Harold Arthur Sydney Molyneux Lieutenant 5 56, 60
Harold Edgar Mott Captain 5 9N (RNAS)
Redford Henry Mulock Colonel 5 3N, 1W, 82W First Canadian and first RNAS ace of the war
John Edwardes Pugh Captain 5 25
John Bernard Russell 2nd Lieutenant 5 103
James Robert Smith 2nd Lieutenant 5 18, 33, 51, 78
George Arthur Welsh Lieutenant 5 210 (RAF)
Robert Kenneth Whitney Lieutenant 5 60

See also

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References

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