Herbert Herbert Andrew Patey

Education

Having completed his training, he was commissioned as a temporary flight sub-lieutenant on 13 November, and joined Number.

Career

Patey began his military career by joining the Royal Naval Division early in He served with them in both Egypt and Gallipoli, and was invalided back to England in September 1915. Two months later, the authorities realized he was underage, and discharged him. Nothing daunted, Patey rejoined the Royal Navy in March 1917, this time choosing the Royal Naval Air Service.

10 (Naval) Squadron in January 1918, which became Number.

210 Squadron Royal Air Force in April. He began his victory string with Number.

210 Squadron on 17 May, sharing in the shooting down of a Rumpler reconnaissance aircraft. On 11 June he was appointed a flight commander with the temporary rank of captain.

Two days later, he was shot down by Ludwig Beckmann of Jasta 56.

He survived the resultant crashlanding, his Sopwith Camel relatively intact, to become a prisoner of war. The citation read:

Lieutenant (Temporary Captain) Herbert Andrew Patey (Sea Patrol). "Whilst leading his flight on an offensive patrol eight enemy machines were encountered.

Captain Patey was cut off from his patrol by two of the enemy who got on his tail, and continued in that position until within 2,000 feet of the ground, at which point his machine was hit in the petrol tank.

Notwithstanding his serious handicap, he turned four times on his pursuers, destroying one, and driving the remainder away. On previous occasions this officer has destroyed two enemy machines and brought down two more out of control, and, in company with other pilots, he has assisted in destroying or bringing down out of control five additional enemy aircraft."

Patey was repatriated after the armistice at the end of.

He arrived home on Christmas Eve, 1918. He became a victim of the 1918 flu pandemic, dying of double pneumonia in West Hampstead on 18 February 1919.

Herbert Andrew Patey was buried in Plot P. 2.

38 of Hampstead Cemetery, Hampstead, England. Herbert Patey"s Sopwith Camel survived him. After being repaired and flown by the Germans until the end of the war, it was taken to Berlin for exhibit in an aviation museum.

The advent of I saw it moved to Krakow, Poland, and stored to escape bombing raids.

The Polish Aviation Museum recently restored lieutenant Restoration was basically complete by mid-2010.

Achievements

• By 3 September, his tally stood at 11, and he had been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. On 21 September 1918, while Patey was a prisoner, his Distinguished Flying Cross was gazetted.