GREAT WAR PILOT
WINS AWARD IN PRESENT CONFLICT Received Feb. 21, 7.55 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 21. Wing-Commander William Ernes Staton, the first Great War pilot win ning an award in the present conflict gained the D.S.O. He brought dow 28 planes, nine in five days, as ; Royal Flying Corps lieutenant ii 1918. aged 17. and won the Militar Cross and D.F.C. with bar. He no\ commands a North England bombin; s:;L.adrcn w.ti. which he raided am made reconnaissance flights over thi North Sea. Wing-Commander Statoi is included in the latest honours lis covering three D.S.O.’s, 16 D.F.C.’s, .1! D.S.M.’s, and eight mentions in de spat ches.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 84, Issue 44, 22 February 1940, Page 5
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