Lieutenant Harold Bolton Redler MC (27 January 1897 – 21 June 1918) was a British World War I flying ace credited with ten aerial victories.
[2] The brothers later went their separate ways; with Arnold inventing a system of handling bulk materials, and later founding the Redler company, now part of the Schenck Process Group,[3] while Daniel relocated to South Africa, where he was a founder and director of the Tiger Oats & National Milling Co. Ltd., now Tiger Brands.
[5] Redler left South Africa at the end of 1915 to travel to England and enlist in the Royal Flying Corps.
40 Squadron in northern France, flying a Nieuport 23 single-seat fighter, and became a balloon buster with his first aerial victory on 7 May 1917.
Redler fired at the highest flying of the triplanes, pressing his attack to a near-collision while pumping 40 rounds into its cockpit.
[1] Redler was posted to the No.1 School of Aerial Fighting and Gunnery, based at the golf course at Turnberry, Ayrshire, Scotland.
His citation read: Redler is buried at the cemetery of the Church of St Augustine, West Monkton, Somerset, England.