English pilot shot by Nungesser

[DTB]

Hello all,

On 26th june 1917, Charles Nungesser was testing a prototype Nieuport 25, around St Pol sur Mer (Dunkirk) where he was based.

An english plane attacked him. He tried to show his cockades to the pilot, but the english plane still attacked him. Nungesser was thinking it was a captured plane piloted by a german aviator : he decided to fight. The english plane was shot down by the french ace.

Nungesser landed near the wreck an discovered that the dead pilot really was an english pilot, maybe too unexperimented to recognise the plane of Nungesser, who since this day painted big blue-white-red stripes on the wings.

Can anyone identify the english pilot ?

Regards,
DTB

[retread]

This has been asked a couple of times at the forum that I know of. It was probably information that was suppressed at the time for any number of reasons and the mystery pilot still remains a mystery.
Still, you have a date and an approximate location ( which I don't recall seeing in the past when this issue was raised). Perhaps through extrapolation and some help at the forum it could be narrowed down to two or three canidates. Although in the past this matter has appeared to be fairly bullet-proof.

[Vin]

The suggestion is that the death of the English pilot occurred before 26 June, a consequence of which was the painting of Nungesser’s wings rather than the killing despite it.

http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/sh...503#post116503