Lieutenant Gordon Frank Mason Apps (3 May 1899 – 24 October 1931) was a British-born World War I flying ace credited with 10 aerial victories.
After working for the Imperial Wireless Chain in England postwar, he returned to Canada and joined the nascent Royal Canadian Air Force.
[1] Gordon Apps followed his elder brother into the Artists Rifles in 1917; he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in late August.
[1] On 11 March 1918, he was on patrol at 14,000 feet (4,300 m) altitude with Alan Jerrard and Peter Carpenter when they attacked half a dozen enemy aeroplanes.
The latter foe crawled from the wreckage only to be strafed by another British pilot; this victim was probably Austro-Hungarian ace Andreas Dombrowski.
[1][2] Apps scored in both morning and evening of 21 June 1918, destroying an Albatros D.V and driving another down out of control.
[1] He won a Distinguished Flying Cross for his exploits; it was promulgated in the London Gazette 21 September 1918: A bold and skilful airman who in recent operations has destroyed six enemy aeroplanes, accounting for two in one flight.
[1] For about two and a half years postwar, Apps supervised a construction crew of approximately 100 in building the Imperial Wireless Chain.
After a round of assignments to Winnipeg, Victoria Beach, Barrie, and Norway House, he was posted to an aerial survey project in 1926, tasked to photograph 25,000 square miles (65,000 km2) in the Red Lake District.
114 with Sergeants John Pettit Hand, Humphrey Madden, Claude Keating and George Gillespie aboard.