Captain Oscar Aloysius Patrick Heron DFC (17 September 1896 – 5 August 1933) was an Irish World War I flying ace of the British Royal Air Force, credited with thirteen confirmed aerial victories.
[3] The family lived in Banbrook Hill, and the 1911 census lists Oscar and his two brothers John and Charles, their parents, his mother's father Jeremiah McKenna, a cook, and two servant girls as residing there.
[2] Heron served for a period in the Connaught Rangers,[4] before being commissioned from cadet to temporary second lieutenant (on probation) in the Royal Flying Corps on 13 December 1917.
[8] Heron was transferred to the RAF's unemployed list on 10 August 1919,[9] but was granted a short service commission with the rank of flying officer two months later on 24 October.
[13] Heron was killed on 5 August 1933 while taking part in a mock aerial combat over Phoenix Park, Dublin, for Irish Aviation Day.
At the end he made a low pass over the park, in front of a large crowd, including his wife, but span into the ground from a height of about five hundred feet (150 m).