Lieutenant Melville Wells Waddington (21 December 1895 – 14 August 1945) was a World War I Canadian flying ace credited with twelve aerial victories.
20 Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps to score a victory in the Bristol Fighter.
[7] Melville Waddington served with the 12th Brigade Ammunition Column of the Canadian Field Artillery, receiving his commission in March 1916.
[8] Lieutenant Waddington, as observer in F.E.2d (A6548), piloted by Harry George Ernest Luchford, sent two Albatros planes out of control on 17 and 21 July 1917, the first over Polygon Wood between Ypres and Zonnebeke, West Flanders, Belgium, and the second over Menen, West Flanders.
They took down two Albatros D.V planes north of Menen, destroying one in flames and sending the other out of control.
His tenth was scored on 11 September 1917, from Bristol (A7214), when Waddington and Makepeace destroyed an Albatros D.V east of Menen.
[8][13] Waddington returned to Canada in February 1918, arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia, aboard the Saxonia.
[15] He served as an instructor,[8] and on 14 August 1918 married Marjorie Jean Hill McLeod in Amherst, Nova Scotia.
[18] According to aviation historian Norman Franks, Waddington was employed as a real estate and insurance salesman after the war.