Awdry Vaucour

Awdry Morris Vaucour, MC & Bar, DFC (8 March 1890 – 16 July 1918) was a First World War flying ace credited with seven aerial victories.

[1] Vaucour, having served as a cadet in the University of London Officers' Training Corps,[2] was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery of the British Army on 1 September 1914,[3] soon after the outbreak of the First World War.

28 Reserve Squadron[8] based at Castle Bromwich, before being appointed an instructor at the Central Flying School at Upavon on 23 January 1917.

[1] Vaucour was killed in action on 16 July 1918,[15] when he was mistakenly shot down by an Hanriot HD.1 from the Italian 78a Squadriglia near Monastier di Treviso.

[1][16] He was buried in the Montecchio Precalcino Communal Cemetery Extension,[17] and is commemorated on the war memorial at St Mary Magdalene's Roman Catholic Church in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex.