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Frederick
Ives
Lord
1900

–

July 21, 1967

Born:

Manitowoc

, 

Wisconsin

Home:

, 

Texas

Frederick Lord enlisted in the Texas National Guard at the age of 16 but was discharged when it was discovered he was under age. He joined the Canadian Royal Flying Corps with a falsified birth certificate. Subsequently flying with the Royal Air Force during World War I, he became a DOUBLE ACE, credited with destroying 12 aircraft (11 airplanes and 1 balloon) in aerial combat.

Awards Received

  • Distinguished Flying Cross

    Service:

    Foreign

    Rank:

    Captain

    Division:

    Royal Air Force

    Action Date:

    World War I

    Captain Frederick Ives Lord, Royal Air Force, was awarded the British Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism during World War I.
    BAR TO DISTINGUISHED FLYING CROSS
    For heroism during the Allied Intervention in Russia in 1919, when on 27 June 1919, while piloting an RE-8, he found the position of the enemy on the Pinega River, four versts from Pilegori, and attacked the moving columns from a height of 200 feet with such effect that their transport was stampeded and their expected attack broke down, without any casualties being sustained by our forces.