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| Name: | John Edward Sharman | Country: | Canada | Rank: | Flight Commander | Service: | Royal Naval Air Service | Squadrons: | 3W; 10(N) | Victories: | 8 | Born: | 11 September 1892 | Place of Birth: | Oak Lake, Manitoba | Died: | 22 July 1917 |  | Place of Death: | |
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| | Sharman joined the Royal Naval Air Service on 3 February 1916. Posted to 3 Wing later that year, he scored his first victory on 25 February 1917 while flying the Sopwith 1½ Strutter. When 3 Wing was disbanded, Sharman was reassigned to Naval 10 on 1 May 1917, becoming a member of Raymond Collishaw's "Black Flight." Flying the Sopwith Triplane known as "Black Death," he scored seven more victories before he was killed in action. |
| Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) |
| "For devotion to duty during long distance air raids. On one occasion, after leading a flight in the morning and returning safely, he volunteered and flew a bombing machine with a second flight in the afternoon." DSC citation, London Gazette, 12 May 1917 |
| Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) Bar |
| "For courage and skill in attacking enemy aircraft. On the evening of the 14 June 1917, while on an offensive patrol with three other scouts, he observed five Albatros scouts. He dived on one of these, firing from his machine gun at about 50 feet range. The scout then went down in a spin. On the 24 June 1917, with six other machines, he attacked fifteen Albatros scouts. After a combat at close range, he destroyed one of these, its right plane and tail plane falling off." DSC Bar citation, London Gazette, 20 July 1917 | |
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