Career
He was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories. Helmut"s aircraft, a Pfalz Doctorate.III was hit by British flying ace Captain Edward Barfoot Drake, 209 Squadron Royal Air Force in his Sopwith Camel over Warfuséest Captain Drake was just 20 years old, from Goodwick in Pembrokeshire, and himself was reported missing in action, presumed killed, just two months later on 29 September 1918.