Lieutenant William Edrington Gray, OBE, DFC (11 October 1898 – May 1985) was a Scottish World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories.
Vizefeldwebel Triebswetter of Jasta 16 pulled away from burning a Belgian observation balloon when the British pair shot him down.
He also received two belated awards in early 1919, being Mentioned in Despatches and winning the Croix de Guerre.
[3] After the war Gray left the RAF, being transferred to the unemployed list on 22 June 1919,[4] and pursued a career as aeronautical engineer.
This was a long-standing interest, as he and his older brother Edward Leadbetter Gray (1897–1918)[5][6] had built a primitive monoplane in 1910–1911, and a biplane in 1914–1915.