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| awards =Order of the British Empire Distinguished Flying Cross | relations = | laterwork = }} Wing Commander William Hastings Farrow (30 March 1893 – date of death unknown) was a British World War I flying ace credited with 10 aerial victories. He would pursue a military career well into the 1920s before resigning in 1926. Like many World War I aces, he returned to the military for World War II, and was honoured by induction into the Order of the British Empire. ==World War I== Farrow was serving as a corporal in the Royal Engineers, when he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps on 3 June 1916.〔 Note: Commissioning in RFC usually coincided with graduation from flight training.〕 On 28 July 1916 he was appointed a flying officer on the General List of the RFC. On 27 December 1916, he scored his first aerial victory while posted to 47 Squadron, serving as part of the British Salonika Army on the Macedonian Front. Scoring one of the few wins ever credited to an Armstrong Whitworth F.K.3, he and his observer teamed with another British aircrew to drive a German reconnaissance aircraft down out of control over Hudova.〔 Farrow spent from 8 December 1917 until 11 January 1918 posted to 28 Training Squadron. He then transferred to 64 Squadron as a Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a pilot.〔 Beginning on 11 May 1918, he fought and beat nine German fighter planes in aerial combat.〔 Farrow was appointed a temporary captain on 3 July 1918. By 5 September 1918, he had burned two German fighters, destroyed three, and driven four more down out of control.〔 His valour won him the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), which was gazetted 2 November 1918: 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「William H. Farrow」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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