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Show 1 . Foremost Airman in British j Service a Canadian, His ; Closest Rival a Chicagoan. AMERICANS' TOTAL BAG- Names of U. S. Aviators in English Army and Their Work to Be Published. j LONDON, Oct 20. Airmen figure I prominently in a long list of war honors announced this week. Lieutenant A. P. Rhys-Davids rc-j rc-j ceived the military cross for destroy-! destroy-! Ing four enemy aircraft and driving ! I down many others out of control. "On one occasion," it is added, "he shot down a German pilot who had accounted for twenty-nine allied ma-! ma-! chines." Captain W. C. Campboll gets the ! distinguished service medal for courage cour-age and skill in attacking enemy aircraft air-craft at close range. He had destroyed twelve hostile airplanes and two balloons bal-loons and had taken part in many Other combats during the last three: months. , Distinguished Service Order. I .n-uuLner recipient of the distin- gulshed service order is Lieutenant A. S. Shepperd. "Within a month he brought down seven machines. Though : surrounded by enemy nutc nines - he fought for nearly an hour against two hostile formations, finally bringing down one of the enemy." Lieutenant K. L. Caldwell, who gqts the miiltary cross, has taken part in' more than fifty contests In the air. I Lieutenant W. C. Cambray, similarly decorated, shot down four enemy scouts. Military crosses are also awarded to Lieutenant G. H. Bowman, who led offensive patrols on twenty occasions, and to Captain A. J. Clark, who led fourteen bomb raids. Canadian Foremost Airman. The foremost airman in the British flying corps Is a Canadian, but his closest rival is an American from Chicago, who has thus far accounted for twenty-two German machines. Up to the present it has been forbidden for-bidden to mention by name any of the American airmen serving in the British Brit-ish army, but it is expected this rule will bo relaxed shortly and that accounts ac-counts of the work of several Americans Ameri-cans of the Royal Flying corps will be issued for publication. The total "bag" of American fliers In the British service is now in the neighborhood of sixty. |