Guy Borthwick Moore

{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox military person | name = Guy Borthwick Moore | image = | caption = | birth_date = 28 May 1895 | death_date = 7 April 1918 | burial_label = [[Arras Flying Services Memorial]] | burial_place = [[Pas de Calais]], France | birth_place = [[Mattawa, Ontario|Mattawa]], Ontario, Canada | death_place = [[Hollebeke]] | burial_coordinates =  | nickname = | allegiance = [[George V]] of the [[British Empire]] | branch = [[Royal Flying Corps]] | service_years = 1916 - 1918 | rank = Captain | unit = [[No. 1 Squadron RAF|No. 1 Squadron RFC/No. 1 Squadron RAF]] | commands = | battles = | awards = [[Military Cross]] | relations = | other_work = }} Captain '''Guy Borthwick Moore''' (1895–1918) was a Canadian World War I [[flying ace]] credited with ten aerial victories.

==Biography== {{See also|Aerial victory standards of World War I}} Moore lived in [[Vancouver]] and attended the [[University of British Columbia]] from 1913 to 1916, gaining a BA. He was an oarsman and a rugby player. He became a [[lieutenant]] in the [[The Irish Fusiliers of Canada (The Vancouver Regiment)|Irish Fusiliers of Canada]] in 1916, and a Cadet in the [[Royal Flying Corps]] (RFC) as of December 1916. He voyaged to England the following month. He was commissioned a [[second lieutenant]] in the RFC on 26 April 1917, and appointed a [[Flying Officer]] on 8 June 1917. He finished his pilot's training in August 1917.<ref>Ancestry.com webwite [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~anncarson/Borthwick/borthwickinthemiddle.htm] Retrieved 25 February 2010.</ref>

Moore joined [[No. 1 Squadron RFC]] on 16 August 1917<ref name="aces">{{cite book|title=Nieuport Aces of World War I|page=19}}</ref> as a [[Nieuport]] fighter pilot. He scored his first victory on 2 October, sharing it with fellow ace [[Herbert Hamilton]]. Moore would score twice more with a Nieuport, on 17 December 1917 and 4 January 1918; then he would upgrade to a [[Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5]]a. He was also promoted to [[flight commander]]. He would use his new mount to cooperate in the destruction of a German [[Pfalz D.III]] on 13 March, sharing the win with Hamilton, [[Harry Rigby (aviator)|Harry Rigby]], [[Percy Jack Clayson]], and four other pilots. On 28 March, Moore notched a double victory, sharing one of the wins with [[Francis Magoun]]. A summary of Moore's record shows six enemy airplanes destroyed (two of which were shared wins), and four driven down out of control (one of which was shared).<ref name="aero">The Aerodrome website [http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/canada/moore2.php] Retrieved 25 February 2010.</ref><ref>''Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915–1920'', p. 285.</ref>

Moore was killed on 7 April 1918, when a German anti-aircraft shell blew up his airplane.<ref name=aces/> He was awarded a posthumous [[Military Cross]].<ref name=aero/><ref name="gazette">Supplement to the London Gazette, 10 May 1918, p. 5701. [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30681/supplements/5701] Retrieved 25 February 2010.</ref>

==Honors and awards== '''Military Cross (MC)'''

T./Capt. Guy Borthwick Moore, Gen. List and R.F.C. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led a patrol to attack hostile balloons. The patrol drove down three balloons in a collapsed condition, one of which he accounted for himself. He has also destroyed three enemy aeroplanes and driven down three others out of control. He has always shown splendid courage and resource. (Supplement to the London Gazette, 13 May 1918)<ref name=gazette/>

==Sources of information== {{reflist}}

==References== * ''Nieuport Aces of World War 1.'' [[Norman Franks]]. Osprey Publishing, 2000. {{ISBN|1-85532-961-1}}, {{ISBN|978-1-85532-961-4}}. * ''Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915–1920.'' Christopher Shores, Norman Franks, Russell Guest. Grub Street, 1990. {{ISBN| 978-0-948817-19-9}}

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