Captain Frank Clifton Gorringe was a British World War I flying ace credited with 14 aerial victories.
[1] Gorringe was working as an express clerk when he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force on 23 September 1914, a week shy of his 25th birthday.
The enlistee was five feet six inches tall, had a fair complexion, light brown hair, hazel eyes, and professed to belong to the Church of England.
He began the new year by helping to flame another recce plane; by 18 February 1918, on which date he burned one Albatros D.V and destroyed another, he had run his total to 14.
In the waning days of the war, Gorringe flew ground attack sorties as a Flight Commander in 210 Squadron.
On several occasions also he has forced enemy aeroplanes to land, and has shown fine qualities of leadership and a keen offensive spirit.