Herbert Sellars

Lieutenant Herbert Whiteley Sellars MC (11 June 1896 – 15 May 1918) was a British World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories.

He was educated at The Leas, Hoylake, and the Loretto School, Musselburgh, and was entered for Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

[2] He began learning to fly at the Beatty School at Hendon Aerodrome in December 1915,[3] and on 10 May 1916 was granted Royal Aero Club Aviator's Certificate No.

11 Squadron to fly the Bristol F.2 two-seater fighter, with Lieutenant Charles Crichton Robson as his observer/gunner.

The next day, 2 April, Sellars and Robson drove down a Fokker Dr.I south-east of Albert, and gained their eighth and final victory on 15 May, sharing in the driving down of another Dr.I over Mametz with Captain John Vincent Aspinall and Lieutenant de la Cour.