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Jack Hunt (RAF officer)

Jack Hunt (RAF officer)

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Lieutenant Frederick John Hunt was an English World War I flying ace credited with nine aerial victories.

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Early life

Hunt was born in Whitchurch, Hampshire, England in 1899 the son of Frederick and Emily Hunt, his father was a coal and corn merchant. He would not be old enough for military duty until late in World War I; his earliest known record of service is 1918.[1]

World War I

Hunt was stationed with 74 Squadron in July 1918. He became a balloon buster for his first aerial victory on 1 September 1918, and would win over another balloon and seven of Germany's finest fighter of the war, the Fokker D.VII, by war's end. He was awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross after his seventh victory, though it would not be gazetted until 1 February 1919.[2]

List of aerial victories

See also Aerial victory standards of World War I

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Post World War I

On 31 March 1923, Hunt and Roland John Neale dissolved their partnership in "The Whitchurch Engineering Works". The firm's business was motor, agricultural, and general engineering.[5]

Hunt was living in Ellisfield when his marriage to Frances Ann Selmer of Valparaíso, Chile was set for 29 September 1927.[6]

References

  • Shores, Christopher F.; Franks, Norman L. R.; Guest, Russell. Above The Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920. Grub Street, 1990. ISBN 0-948817-19-4, ISBN 978-0-948817-19-9.

Endnotes

  1. "Frederick John Hunt". www.theaerodrome.com. Retrieved 8 August 2011.
  2. Shores, et al, p. 204.
  3. "Frederick John Hunt". www.theaerodrome.com. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
  4. Shores, et al, p. 204.
  5. (The London Gazette, 24 April 1923, p. 2998.) http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/32817/pages/2998 Retrieved 6 August 2011.

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