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| Name: | Lloyd Samuel Breadner | Country: | Canada | Rank: | Major | Service: | Royal Naval Air Service Royal Air Force | Squadrons: | 3W, 3N (RNAS) 204 (RAF) | Victories: | 10 | Born: | 17 July 1894 | Place of Birth: | Carleton Place, Ontario | Died: | 1953 | Place of Death: | Boston, Massachusetts |
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| | Breadner enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service in 1915. In 1917, he was assigned to 3 Naval Squadron which was flying with the RFC. Flying the Sopwith Pup, he scored his fourth victory by shooting down a Gotha G.III on 23 April 1917. It was the first Gotha bomber shot down by a British fighter over the Western Front. During World War II, Air Chief Marshal Breadner served with the Royal Canadian Air Force. |
| Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) |
| "For conspicuous gallantry and skill in leading his patrol against hostile formations. He has himself brought down three hostile machines and forced several others to land. On 6 April 1917, he drove down a hostile machine which was wrecked while attempting to land in a ploughed field. On the morning of 11 April 1917, he destroyed a hostile machine which fell in flames, brought down another in a spinning nose dive with one wing folded up, and forced a third to land." DSC citation, London Gazette, 23 May 1917 |
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