Group Captain Robert Lyle McKendrick Barbour, DFC, AFC (31 August 1895 – 1980) was a Scottish airman and a flying ace of the First World War credited with six aerial victories.
[1][2] Barbour attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, as a Gentlemen Cadet, from where he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers on 27 October 1916.
The citation for the award read: This officer has carried out twenty-nine bombing raids and forty-seven photographic reconnaissances, displaying at all times marked courage and clear judgment.
[1] He was promoted from flying officer to flight lieutenant in December 1925,[5] and was awarded the Air Force Cross in June 1928.
[6] He received further promotions; to squadron leader on 1 October 1934,[7] to wing commander on 31 December 1937,[8] and to temporary group captain on 1 September 1940.