[1] The Canadian Great War Project, as well as the Aerodrome website, give his birthplace as Owen Sound, Ontario, and the date as 14 January 1891.
[2] When he decided to join military service to fight in the First World War, he first learned to fly in the United States.
[5] Eight days later, he scored his first aerial victory while teamed with Leonard Herbert Emsden in a pusher Royal Aircraft Factory FE.2d.
He has several times been attacked by superior numbers, and on each occasion has accounted for more than one of the hostile machines and effected a safe landing himself.
[3] After Reginald George Malcolm was transferred to staff duty at headquarters on 16 December 1918,[3] he fades from history's view.