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Roderic
Dallas
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| Country: |
Australia |
| Born: |
30 July 1891 |
| Place of Birth: |
Mount Stanley, Queensland |
| Deceased: |
01 June 1918 |
| Rank: |
Major |
| Service: |
Royal Naval Air Service
Royal Air Force |
| Units: |
1N; 1W (RNAS)
40 (RAF) |
| Victories: |
32 |
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| Dallas joined the Australian army
in 1913. When war broke out, he applied for a
transfer to the Royal Flying Corps but was rejected.
Instead, he joined the Royal Naval Air Service
in 1915. Flying Nieuport Scouts, Sopwith Triplanes
and Sopwith Camels, Dallas scored 23 victories
before he assumed command of 40 Squadron on 1
April 1918. Two weeks later, he was wounded while
strafing enemy troop positions but continued
flying combat missions. With the S.E.5a, he scored
9 more victories before he encountered three
members of Jasta 14 and was killed in action,
shot down by Johannes Werner in a Fokker DR.I. |
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