Wing Commander William Hastings Farrow OBE, DFC (30 March 1893 – 11 July 1946) was a British World War I flying ace credited with 10 aerial victories.
[3] On 27 December 1916, he scored his first aerial victory while posted to 47 Squadron, serving as part of the British Salonika Army on the Macedonian front.
Scoring one of the few wins ever credited to an Armstrong Whitworth F.K.3, he and his observer teamed with another British aircrew to drive a German reconnaissance aircraft down out of control over Hudova.
[1] His valour won him the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), which was gazetted 2 November 1918: A brilliant fighting Pilot, who never hesitates to engage the enemy, regardless of the latter's numerical superiority.
[13] Farrow returned to serve in World War II; he was commissioned as a probationary flying officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve on 9 September 1939.
[20] A coronial inquest returned a verdict that Farrow, disturbed by marital and financial problems, had shot his wife and then committed suicide.