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George Reid (RAF officer)
Air Vice Marshal Sir George Ranald MacFarlane Reid KCB, DSO, MC & Bar (25 October 1893 – 19 May 1991) was a senior officer of the Royal Air Force. He began his career in aviation in World War I with the Royal Flying Corps after transferring from the Black Watch. He rose through a series of command positions in the RAF to become a consequential participant in World War II.
==World War I service==
Reid began his military career in the Officer Training Corps prior to World War I. He was commissioned a Temporary Second Lieutenant in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on 15 August 1914, in the early days of the war. However, it was with the Black Watch that he went into action; in January 1915, he was wounded at the Battle of Festubert while with the Watch. The wound could not have been serious, as Reid began pilot's training that same month. The following month, on 16 February, he was confirmed as a Second Lieutenant.〔(Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation ) Retrieved on 12 March 2010.〕 He earned Aviators' Certificate No. 1900, awarded on 16 October 1915.〔(Aviators Certificates ) ''FLIGHT'' Magazine, 29 October 1915, Retrieved on 12 March 2010.〕 Upon completion of training, he was assigned to 25 Squadron; his appointment as a Flying Officer dated from 15 November 1915.〔 Reid destroyed enemy aircraft on 16, 19, and 21 May 1916, using a Royal Aircraft Factory FE.2b with Lieutenant James Anderson Mann as his pilot. Reid won a Military Cross on 24 June 1916 as a result of these victories.
On 19 June, Reid had been transferred to 20 Squadron as a Flight Commander with the accompanying rank of Acting Captain. With 20 Squadron, Reid used a slightly newer FE.2d with Lieutenant Laurence H. Scott as his gunner; the pair scored six more wins between 29 July and 21 October 1916. Reid's final tally was seven German planes destroyed, two driven down out of control.〔(George Reid ) The Aerodrome, Retrieved on 12 March 2010.〕 A Bar in lieu of a second MC followed, on 25 November 1916.
On 10 February 1917, Reid was promoted to Temporary Major, a squadron command rank in wartime. On 30 March 1917, he was promoted to command of 18 Squadron on the Western Front. On 25 July 1918, he was transferred to command of 211 Squadron.〔
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