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Jack Mason (RAF airman)

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Allegiance
  
United Kingdom

Service number
  
P/13911

Name
  
Jack Mason

Rank
  
Sergeant

Unit
  
Died
  
1968 (aged 71–72)Belfast, Northern Ireland

Service/branch
  
British ArmyRoyal Air Force

Sergeant Jack Mason MM (1896–1968) was a British World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.

In 1917 Mason was a Corporal in the Royal Flying Corps, serving as an observer/gunner in No. 11 Squadron, flying the Bristol F.2b two-seater fighter. His first aerial victory came on 8 June, with Captain Richard Raymond-Barker as his pilot, when he drove down out of control an Albatros D.III over Bohain. On 14 August he drove down an Albatros D.V over Brebières, and on 21 October accounted for three D.Vs over BoiryLécluse, with pilot Lieutenant Ronald Mauduit on both occasions.

In November 1917 he was awarded the Military Medal.

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