Captain William Lewis Wells MC & Bar (1895 – 6 May 1918) was a British World War I flying ace credited with ten aerial victories.
[1] He was appointed a Temporary Boy Clerk in the General Post Office on 8 March 1911.
[2] Wells served as a private in the 8th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Post Office Rifles), until commissioned a second lieutenant in the Middlesex Regiment on 25 March 1915.
[4][5] He was promoted to lieutenant in the RFC on 1 February 1917,[6] but had to wait until 23 June before receiving the same step up in his regiment.
Note that it was not granted solely for his air-to-air combat: However, Wells never got to read the praise for his gallantry as he died from wounds sustained in action one week before his first award, on 6 May 1918.