Brigadier Douglas Hugh Moffatt Carbery MC, DFC* (26 March 1894 – 27 April 1959) was a British artillery officer, who became a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories while attached to the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force.
[4] Carbery served in France and Belgium with the British Expeditionary Force from 15 December 1914 to 17 May 1915,[4] gaining promotion to lieutenant on 9 June,[5] and returning to active duty between 16 July 1915 and 25 April 1916.
His first aerial victory came on 25 January, flying a R.E.8, driving a German aircraft down over Morlancourt, which was then captured.
[4] On 1 August 1919 Carbery was granted a permanent commission as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force.
[14] On 1 January 1921 Carbery relinquished his temporary commission in the RAF,[15] and was restored to the establishment of the Royal Regiment of Artillery the following day.
[4][18] Carbery spent the first part of the war serving in the Royal Artillery's Coast Defence and Anti-Aircraft Branch.
[20] On 1 July 1942 he was appointed acting-colonel and acting-brigadier,[21] to serve as commanding officer, 14th (West Africa) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, until 11 April 1943,[22] seeing action in India and Burma.
They had one child, Anne Irene Carbery, born in July 1935, who married Lieutenant-Commander Alexander Leonard Dominic Brown, RN, on 10 November 1956.