FINE CAREER ENDED, LT. E. V. REID DEAD
Destroyed 18 Hun Planes While With Toronto Air Squadron.
With the passing of Flight Lieut.
Ellis V. Reid, R.N., D.S.C., who is reported killed in action on July 28, a Toronto air squadron has practically been wiped out. Lieut. Pete Flett, D.S.C., who is now at home on leave, is the only remaining member of the gallant band. Lieut. Reid left Toronto in January, 1916, and trained for the air service of the Royal Navy in England. In May, 1916, he was attached to Wing No. 3 along the Swiss border. Last fall he was transferred to Wing No. 10, somewhere on the Western front. In July last he was reported missing. A cable received on September 15 states that he was killed in action on the above date. He had taken part in several important raids and is officially credited with having destroyed 18 Hun planes. He won the D.S.C. and had been recommended for the D.S.O. Had he lived he would have been made flight commander of his squadron. Lieut. "Sport" Murton, now a prisoner, was another distinguished member of the same squadron. Lieut. Reid and Pete Flete fought together in several raids and were in the assault on Freiburg. On one occasion the squadron were [
sic] flying at a height of 10,000 feet and their compasses froze solid. Only one out of fifteen machines returned to the aerodrome on that occasion. The rest were forced to land at various points in France. The squadron has done great execution among the enemy. For a long time they were working side by side with the famous French aviator,
Georges Guynemer.
Lieut. Reid was a graduate in architecture of the University of Toronto, and before the war was connected with the firm of Burke, Horwood & White. He was 29 years of age and unmarried, and lived at 38 Alberta avenue. He was the son of Mr. A. N. Reid, of the Great West Life Assurance Company, and brother of George A. Reid, secretary-treasurer of the National Sanitarium Association, C. E. Reid, service manager of Robert Simpson Company, and J. W. Reid, also of the Robert Simpson Company.
Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario) - September 19, 1917
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