Group Captain Horace Percy Lale DSO, DFC & Bar (8 April 1886 – 5 April 1955) was a Royal Air Force officer and British World War I flying ace credited with 23 victories.

[1] Lale was commissioned a temporary second lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps on 26 September 1916.

[5] Lale remained in the Royal Air Force after the war, receiving a permanent commission in the rank of flying officer on 1 August 1919.

(FRANCE) A bold and courageous officer, who leads his patrol with marked skill and judgment.

On 6 September he led his patrol of nine machines to the assistance of some formations that were attacked by thirty or forty enemy aircraft; in the engagement he and his Observer accounted for two Fokkers; eventually the enemy was driven off, five of their machines being destroyed and three shot down out of control.