Noel Webb (RFC officer)

Captain Noel William Ward Webb MC & Bar (12 December 1896 – 16 August 1917) was a British World War I flying ace credited with fourteen aerial victories.

Webb first served as a private in the Honourable Artillery Company before being commissioned into the Royal Flying Corps as a second lieutenant on 10 March 1916.

While test flying a new Camel on 12 July, he became the first pilot to score a victory in the type by wounding the crew of a German two-seater and forcing them down onto a British airfield into captivity.

On 17 July, he sent down two Albatros D.Vs out of control in separate actions; in one of these dogfights, he wounded German ace Oberflugmeister Karl Meyer.

[2] As a Commonwealth flier of the Western Front with no known grave he is commemorated at the Arras Flying Services Memorial,[9] and also, alongside his brother Lieutenant Paul Frederic Hobson Webb, who was killed in action on 7 July 1918 while serving in No.

Webb was one of the few pilots who became an ace while flying the F.E.2b.
War memorial inside St James's Church in Dunwich including Noel Webb