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| Name: | Arthur Percival Foley Rhys Davids | Country: | England | Rank: | Lieutenant | Service: | Royal Flying Corps | Squadrons: | 56 | Victories: | 25 | Born: | 27 September 1897 | Place of Birth: | | Died: | 27 October 1917 |  | Place of Death: | |
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| | Rhys Davids attended Eton and received a scholarship to Oxford. Fearing he might be shot down and captured, he always carried a book of Blake's poetry into combat. In his first dogfight on 7 May 1917, his flight commander, Albert Ball, was shot down while Rhys Davids survived an attack by Kurt Wolff of Jasta 11. On 23 September 1917, during one of the most famous dogfights of the war, he shot down the Fokker Triplane of Werner Voss. When Carl Menckhoff arrived on the scene in an Albatros Scout and attempted to assist Voss, Rhys Davids shot him down too. The following month, Rhys Davids was shot down by Karl Gallwitz of Jasta Boelcke. |
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