Flight Lieutenant William Geoffrey Meggitt MC (8 April 1894 – 28 January 1927) was a British World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories.
25 Squadron RFC, flying the F.E.2b two-seater fighter Meggitt gained his first aerial victories on 22 October 1916, destroying two Type D aircraft, the first with Sergeant William Drummond Matheson early in the morning south-west of Seclin, and another in the late afternoon north-west of Lille with Second Lieutenant D. S. Johnson.
He gained his fifth aerial victory on 10 October, destroying an Albatros D.V over Moorslede with observer Air Mechanic 1st Class Arch Whitehouse.
[1] Meggitt was shot down on 8 November 1917,[1] and initially listed as missing in action, but was eventually reported as being a prisoner of the Germans in early 1918.
Flying from Northolt to Kenley, he lost control during a gale and crashed in the garden of a house at 11 Beatrice Ave, Norbury, London SW.