Lionel Rees
✓ Source-basedrisingWelsh Royal Air Force officer (1884-1955); recipient of the Victoria Cross
United KingdomLived 1884 to 1955 · aged 71Group Captain Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees, was a Welsh aviator, flying ace, and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
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Group Captain Lionel Wilmot Brabazon Rees, was a Welsh aviator, flying ace, and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He was credited with eight confirmed aerial victories, comprising one enemy aircraft captured, one destroyed, one "forced to land" and five "driven down". Rees and his gunner, Flight Sergeant James McKinley Hargreaves, were the only two airmen to become aces flying the earliest purpose-built British fighter aeroplane, the Vickers Gunbus.
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