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Lloyd Breadner [Canada]

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
Distinguished Service Cross (DSC)Lloyd Breadner

Notes
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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