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Lieutenant Guy Wilbraham Wareing DFC was a World War I flying ace credited with nine aerial victories.〔http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/wareing.php Retrieved 23 February 2010.〕 Wareing joined the Royal Flying Corps in August 1917. He was assigned to 29 Squadron to pilot a Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a in June 1918. On 12 August, he began his victory roll by destroying a German Pfalz D.III fighter over Ploegsteert, Belgium. After destroying two reconnaissance planes and driving another down out of control, Wareing became both an ace and a balloon buster by ruining an observation balloon on 7 September 1918. He burned a Fokker D.VII and destroyed three more balloons, two of those being his last triumphs on two separate sorties on 29 September.〔http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/wareing.php Retrieved 23 February 2010.〕 On 7 October, he was promoted to Temporary Captain, with the notice appearing in the London Gazette 11 October.〔http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/30947/pages/11974 Retrieved 23 February 2010.〕 Wareing was shot down and killed by Leutnant Josef Raesch of Jasta 43 on 27 October 1918.〔http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/wareing.php Retrieved 23 February 2010.〕〔(CWGC entry )〕 ==Honours and awards== Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC) Lieut. Guy Wilbraham Wareing. (FRANCE) A bold and courageous airman who has destroyed four enemy aeroplanes and shot down in flames a hostile balloon. He is conspicuous for zeal and devotion to duty. Supplement to the London Gazette, 3 December 1918〔http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/31046/supplements/14326 Retrieved 23 February 2010.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guy Wareing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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