Captain Reuben George Hammersley (26 September 1897 – after 1940) was an English World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories.
[1] Hammersley was born in Leicester, and worked as a Boot factor in Measham before the war.
3556 on a Caudron biplane at Wallisdown School, Bournemouth, on 14 September 1916,[1] then joined the Royal Flying Corps as a cadet, being commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant (on probation) on 3 May 1917,[2] and was confirmed in his rank on 27 July.
He gained his first victories on 19 February 1918, when he and Lieutenants Peter MacDougall, Ronald T. Mark and Andrew Cowper, shot down two aircraft over Servais and Bernot.
[1] On 1 September 1918 he was appointed a flight commander with the acting rank of captain,[4] and later the same month was awarded the Croix de guerre by France.