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| Name: | Robert "Bob" Dodds | Country: | Canada | Rank: | Captain | Service: | Royal Flying Corps Royal Air Force | Squadrons: | 48 | Victories: | 11 | Born: | 11 March 1892 | Place of Birth: | Hamilton, Ontario | Died: | 8 December 1980 | Place of Death: | Hamilton, Ontario |
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| | An engineering student when the war began, Dodds joined the army in 1916. After serving with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in October 1916. Joining 48 Squadron on 12 July 1917, Dodds flew Bristol Fighters and won the Military Cross for an attack on an enemy aerodrome. In May 1918, he returned to Canada where he served as an instructor at Camp Mohawk. |
| | "For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He has destroyed or driven down eleven enemy machines. On one occasion while on a one-machine patrol he attacked three enemy scouts but owing to his gun jamming, he was forced to withdraw from the attack. Though under heavy fire from the pursuing enemy, he succeeded in remedying the defect and then turned and attacked the enemy again. He destroyed one of them and drove down another out of control. Later, he led a bombing raid on an enemy aerodrome, and under intense machine-gun fire from the ground, dived to within 100 feet of the hangars before releasing his bombs. Though his machine was damaged, he remained at a height of 200 feet until the rest of his formation had dropped their bombs. His magnificent example of pluck and determination was of the greatest value to the squadron." MC citation, London Gazette, 13 May 1918 |
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