Roger Neville

Roger Henry Gartside Neville
Born 8 March 1895
St. Pancras, London, England
Died May 1986
Uckfield, Surrey, England
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch Flying service
Rank Captain
Unit Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, No. 21 Squadron RAF, No. 23 Squadron RAF
Awards Military Cross

Captain Roger Henry Gartside Neville was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.[1]

Neville was commissioned in the infantry on 14 July 1915. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps on 5 December. He joined 21 Squadron early in 1916, to fly a Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.12 single-seat bomber. He scored a victory with it on 14 September 1916, destroying a German LVG two-seater reconnaissance plane. Eight days later, he was wounded in action. When he returned to duty, it was as a flight commander with 23 Squadron[2] to fly Spad VIIs.[3] Flying Spad no. B3519, he tallied four victories in July 1917.[4]

Honors and awards

Military Cross (MC)

2nd Lt. (temp. Capt.) Roger Henry Gartside Neville, D. of Corn. L.I. and R.F.C.

For conspicuous skill and gallantry. He is a fine leader of patrol work, and has done much to keep enemy machines away from our lines. On one occasion, flying in a rain storm, after nearly colliding with an enemy machine he pursued it and brought it down half a mile from an enemy aerodome. Supplement to the London Gazette, 14 November 1916 (29824/11062)[5]

Sources of information

  1. ↑ http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/neville.php Retrieved 8 February 2010.
  2. ↑ Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920. p. 290.
  3. ↑ http://www.theaerodrome.com/services/gbritain/rfc/23.php Retrieved 8 February 2010.
  4. ↑ Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920. p. 290.
  5. ↑ http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/neville.php Retrieved 8 February 2010.

References

Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920. Christopher F. Shores, Norman L. R. Franks, Russell Guest. Grub Street, 1990. ISBN 0-948817-19-4, ISBN 978-0-948817-19-9.