Kent Online

Gillingham flying ace James McCudden VC remembered 100 years after the start of the First World War

Not many survived a duel with the Red Baron during the First World War – but one was Gillingham’s own flying ace James ‘Mac’ McCudden. The amazing wartime exploits and aerial combats of McCudden, and ...
Kent Online

Sheppey flying ace Major James “Jimmy” McCudden honoured in Boffles

Sheppey flying ace Major James “Jimmy” McCudden has been honoured in a two-day ceremony in France. At the start of the First World War in 1914 he was a lowly private working as a mechanic in the ...
Daily Mail

The incredible story of Britain's red baron: He was our first air ace, with 57 kills to his name - yet if war chiefs had their way we'd never have heard of him

The young rookie pilot felt a sharp stab of fear, colder even than the icy wind blasting through his open cockpit. It was December 27, 1916, the very middle of World War I, and he was in a deadly ...
BBC

WW1 - Aces Falling

Series editor John Farren writes: Edward Mannock VC and James McCudden VC rose from modest backgrounds to become two of Britain's greatest fighter aces in World War One. As their number of victories ...
BBC

World War One: Mysterious deaths of the English flying aces

The lives - and deaths - of aces McCudden, Mannock and Ball have become part of aviation legend The three biggest-hitting British air aces of World War One rose from quiet backgrounds to become ...