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Andrew Kiddie [South Africa]

Name:Andrew Cameron Kiddie
Country:South Africa
Rank:Captain
Service:Royal Flying Corps
Royal Air Force
Squadrons:32, 74
Victories:15
Born:
Place of Birth:
Died:
Place of Death:
Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) and Bar
Croix de Guerre [Belgium]

Notes
After serving with the army in West Africa, Kiddie traveled to England to join the Royal Flying Corps. Posted to 32 Squadron in 1917, he scored his first victory flying a D.H.5. Later that year, he served as an instructor with the Home Establishment. Among his students was future ace Ira Jones. In the spring of 1918, Kiddie was back in France flying the S.E.5a with 74 Squadron. On the morning of 8 May 1918, just days after scoring his second victory, Kiddie's flight of six S.E.5a's was pounced on by ten Fokker Triplanes. With a badly damaged aircraft, Kiddie was the only pilot to make it back to the aerodrome. He went on to become a flight commander in the summer of 1918 and scored thirteen more victories by the end of the war.

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