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| Name: |
Fred Everest Banbury |
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| Country: |
Canada |
| Rank: |
Captain |
| Service: |
Royal Naval Air Service
Royal Air Force |
| Units: |
9N (RNAS) |
| Victories: |
11 |
| Born: |
27 October 1893 |
| Place of Birth: |
Wolseley, Saskatchewan |
| Died: |
01 April 1918 |
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| Place of Death: |
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| Cemetery: |
Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery, Nord, France |
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The only son of Robert S. and Susannah B. Banbury, of Regina, Saskatchewan, Fred Everest Banbury attended Victoria College (1911-1912) and University College (1912-1914). In March 1916 he enrolled in the Curtiss Flying School at Newport News, Virginia and obtained his pilot's certificate with the highest record of the school. In July 1916 he arrived in England where he enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service. After additional training he was posted to France with 9 Naval Squadron in March 1917. He scored his first 2 victories flying the Sopwith Pup and scored 9 more victories flying the Sopwith Camel. Killed in a flying accident on 1 April 1918, Banbury was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Cross. |
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| Victories |
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Date |
Time |
Unit |
Aircraft |
Opponent |
Location |
| 1 |
31 May 1917 |
1615 |
9N |
Sopwith Pup (N6188) |
C (OOC) 1 |
Ostend |
| 2 |
01 Jun 1917 |
0915 |
9N |
Sopwith Pup (N6188) |
Halberstadt C (OOC) |
Westende-Ghistelles |
| 3 |
25 Jul 1917 |
1730 |
9N |
Sopwith Camel (B3820) |
C (OOC) 2 |
Off Westende |
| 4 |
05 Sep 1917 |
0800 |
9N |
Sopwith Camel (B3832) |
Albatros C (OOC) 3 |
Middelkerke-Nieuport |
| 5 |
13 Sep 1917 |
abt 1430 |
9N |
Sopwith Camel (B3832) |
Albatros D.V (OOC) 4 |
E of Leke |
| 6 |
28 Sep 1917 |
1610 |
9N |
Sopwith Camel (B6230) |
Albatros D.V (DES) 5 |
Dixmude |
| 7 |
02 Oct 1917 |
1450 |
9N |
Sopwith Camel (B6230) |
C (OOC) 6 |
Ostend-Slype |
| 8 |
27 Oct 1917 |
1040 |
9N |
Sopwith Camel (B6230) |
Albatros D.V (OOC) 7 |
Slype |
| 9 |
28 Oct 1917 |
1230 |
9N |
Sopwith Camel (B6230) |
Albatros D.V (DES) |
Schoore |
| 10 |
23 Nov 1917 |
1220 |
9N |
Sopwith Camel (B6230) |
Albatros D.V (OOC) 8 |
S of Dixmude |
| 11 |
26 Mar 1918 |
0725 |
9N |
Sopwith Camel (B7247) |
C (CAP) 9 |
1 mi S of Becelaere |
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| 1 |
Shared with FSL A Shearer (N6193), FSL Harold Stackard |
| 2 |
Shared with FSL John Pinder, FSL Snell (B3813), FSL Oliver Redgate, FSL Harold Mott |
| 3 |
Shared with F/Cdr Stearne Edwards, FSL Roy Brown, FSL Oliver Redgate, FSL Arthur Wood |
| 4 |
Shared with F/Cdr Stearne Edwards, FSL Oakley (B3880), FSL John Hales, FSL Ingleson (B3817) |
| 5 |
Shared with FSL Oliver Redgate, FSL John Hales, FSL Merrill Taylor, FSL Cedric Edwards |
| 6 |
Shared with FSL Oliver Redgate |
| 7 |
Shared with F/Cdr Stearne Edwards, FSL Francis Mellersh, FSL John Hales, FSL John Paynter, FSL CA Narbeth (B3883), FSL Arthur Wood, FSL Merrill Taylor, F/Cdr Harold Stackard |
| 8 |
Shared with FSL John Hales |
| 9 |
Shared with FSL Squire (D3328), FSL Oliver Redgate, FSL Merrill Taylor |
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