Tag: distinguished flying cross
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Captain Gordon Budd Irving DFC in the Great War
The only son of William Henry and Mary Irving of Toronto, Ontario. Captain Gordon Budd Irving educated at Huron Street Public and the University Schools. An employee of the National Trust Company, he joined the Royal Flying Corps in May 1917. After training at Camp Borden and in England, posted to No 19 Squadron in…
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Major Donald Roderick MacLaren in the Great War
DSO, MC & Bar, DFC, Croix du Guerre, Légion d’honneur Major Donald Roderick MacLaren, a Scots-Canadian, born in Ottawa on 28 May 1893 to Robert James and Mary Jeanie MacLaren, and moved with his family to Calgary six years later. An expert marksman early in life, and later managed to gain a place at university.…