[2][3] His older brother Captain Terence Petty Muspratt, MC, of the Worcestershire Regiment, was killed in action on 29 May 1918, aged 22, and is buried at Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, France.

[1] Muspratt left school at the end of the 1916 summer term,[5] and was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the Dorsetshire Regiment for service in the Royal Flying Corps on 8 August 1916.

[1] Then, on 23 September, he participated in one of the epic air battles of World War I when Werner Voss single-handedly fought patrols from No.

[9] Muspratt was awarded the Military Cross on 18 October 1917,[10] and destroyed two more German aircraft by the end of the month.

After his final victory, he was withdrawn from battle and assigned to Home Establishment to serve as a test pilot at Martlesham Heath.

[12] He was killed in a flying accident in Suffolk on 16 March 1918,[1][5] and is buried at Bournemouth Cemetery on Wimborne Road.