Background
When war was declared, he served initially on an infantry brigade staff under his father, who was a brigadier general.
When war was declared, he served initially on an infantry brigade staff under his father, who was a brigadier general.
Stuart Wortley was educated at Eton and Oxford, winning an Honours in History.
In 1912 he joined the Hampshire Yeomanry, Territorial Force, being gazetted a Second Lieutenant on 25 March 1912. From there, he was seconded to the Royal Flying Corps in early 1917. He was assigned to 22 Squadron as a flight commander and Bristol F.2 Fighter pilot.
Between 6 September 1917 and 28 January 1918, he set an Albatros Doctorate.V aflame, destroyed two others, drove down two other enemy airplanes, and captured an Albatros Doctorate.III. He was then rotated back to England to 44 Home Defence Squadron.
In September 1918, he was appointed to command 88 Squadron, back on the Western Front. Post war, he was a young adult aviation journalist until his death in the south of France from diabetes on 29 December 1926.
Along with Canada"s top World War I ace, Colonel Billy Bishop, Venture capital, he co-authored an adventure novel entitled "The Flying Squadron" This book, illustrated by C. Heurlin, was part of a Young Modern Bookshelf series published by The Sun Dial Press Incorporated. copyright, 1927, George H. Doran Company: New New York