Alfred Hemming

Alfred Stewart Hemming
Born17 August 1895
Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
Died27 December 1920 (aged 25)
Cape Town, South Africa
Military career
Allegiance Union of South Africa
Branch
Royal Air Force
Rank
Captain
UnitNo. 41 Squadron RAF
AwardsDistinguished Flying Cross

Captain Alfred Stewart Hemming DFC (17 August 1895 – 27 December 1920) was an English World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories.: 191 

Hemming was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, to William Hemming, a shopkeeper from Banbury, and Alison Hemming, from Yorkshire. After his father's death in 1908, he moved to South Africa, where he attended high school. He was killed in an air crash in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1920.

References

  1. 1 2 3 UK, RAF Officer Service Records, 1918-1919
  2. ↑ "1918 | 1248 | Flight Archive". www.flightglobal.com. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
  3. ↑ "Alfred Stewart Hemming". www.theaerodrome.com. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  4. ↑ Shores, Christopher F. (1990). Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920. Grub Street. ISBN 0-948817-19-4.
  5. ↑ 1901 England Census