{{short description|British flying ace}} {{EngvarB|date=November 2017}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}} <!-- This article is a part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft and Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Military. --> {{Infobox military person | name = Henry Eric Dolan | image = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1896|1|20|df=yes}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1918|5|12|1896|1|20|df=yes}} | burial_label = | burial_place = La Laiterie Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West Flanders, Belgium | birth_place = St. Leonards, Sussex, England | death_place = In the vicinity of Wulverghem, Belgium | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | nickname = | allegiance = Canada<br />United Kingdom | branch = Canadian Army<br />British Army<br />Royal Air Force | service_years = | rank = Lieutenant | unit = Royal Field Artillery<br />No. 74 Squadron RFC | commands = | battles = | awards = Military Cross | relations = Captain Gerald Roberts Nolan, RN (brother)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.unithistories.com/officers/RN_officersD4.html |title=Royal Navy Officers 1939–1945 (D) |first1=Hans |last1=Houterman |first2=Jeroen |last2=Koppes |work=unithistories.com |year=2014 |accessdate=21 November 2014}}</ref> | other_work = }}
Lieutenant '''Henry Eric Dolan''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MC}} (20 January 1896 – 12 May 1918) was a World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories.<ref name="theaerodrome">{{cite web |url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/dolan.php |title=Henry Eric Dolan |work=The Aerodrome |year=2014 |accessdate=21 November 2014 }}</ref>
==Biography== Henry Eric Dolan was born in England, a son of Alfred Archer Dolan, a mining engineer and Violet Eliza Edgeworth ({{nee}} Hanrick) Dolan.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.geni.com/people/Alfred-Dolan/6000000028672708917 |title=Alfred Archer Dolan (deceased) |first=Maria Teresa |last=Padillo Rivademar de Dolan |work=geni.com |year=2014 |accessdate=21 November 2014}}</ref> Dolan's parents later lived at Banbury, Oxfordshire. Henry had a brother, Gerald Roberts Dolan. Educated at Downside School,<ref>{{cite book |title=Downside Review |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j34aAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Henry+Eric+Dolan%22 |year=1916}}</ref> he moved to Canada. Soon after the outbreak of WWI, he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/searches/soldierDetail.asp?ID=6273 |title=Lieutenant Henry Eric Dolan |work=Canadian Great War Project |year=2014 |accessdate=21 November 2014}}</ref> On 20 November 1914 he was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery,<ref>{{London Gazette |date=20 November 1914 |supp=y |issue=28983 |page=9671 |nolink=yes}}</ref> and was promoted to temporary lieutenant on 31 January 1916.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=15 February 1916 |supp=y |issue=29477 |page=1788 |nolink=yes}}</ref> He was awarded the Military Cross on 1 January 1917.<ref>{{London Gazette | issue = 29886 | date = 1 January 1917 | pages = 33 | supp = y }}</ref>
On 31 August 1917 he was appointed a flying officer in the Royal Flying Corps, and transferred to the General List.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=25 September 1917 |supp=y |issue=30304 |page=9924 |nolink=yes}}</ref> In early 1918 he was posted to No. 74 Squadron, which operated Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5as on the Western Front.<ref name="theaerodrome"/> He was assigned to 'A' Flight, under the leadership of "Mick" Mannock.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.historynet.com/edward-mick-mannock-world-war-i-raf-ace-pilot.htm/4 |title=Edward Mick Mannock: World War I RAF Ace Pilot |first=O'Brien |last=Browne |work=historynet.com |year=2007 |accessdate=21 November 2014}}</ref> Dolan scored his first victory when he shot down an Albatros D.V near Merville on 12 April 1918. He scored steadily throughout the following month, notching his seventh triumph on 11 May.
The following day, Dolan fell under the guns of Raven Freiherr von Barnekow.<ref name="theaerodrome"/> He is buried in plot II, row D, grave 8 at La Laiterie Military Cemetery, Heuvelland, West Flanders, Belgium.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/95057/DOLAN,%20H%20E |title=Dolan, Henry Eric |work=Commonwealth War Graves Commission |year=2014 |accessdate=21 November 2014}}</ref>
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