Archie McKellar
List of victories
Historian Alfred Price credited McKellar with 17 air victories, three shared destroyed, five probably destroyed and three damaged. Historians Christopher Shores and Clive Williams credit him with 21 air victories, three probably destroyed and three damaged as does E.C.R Baker.

Archie McKellar

Section Title: List of victories
Table Section Text: Historian Alfred Price credited McKellar with 17 air victories, three shared destroyed, five probably destroyed and three damaged. Historians Christopher Shores and Clive Williams credit him with 21 air victories, three probably destroyed and three damaged as does E.C.R Baker.

Chronicle of aerial victories

Claim No.	Date	Kills	Notes

1.	16 October 1939	1 x Junkers Ju 88	First enemy aircraft shot down in British waters. Gruppenkommandeur I./KG 30 Hauptmann Helmut Pohl's Junkers Ju 88 destroyed.

2.	28 October 1939	1 x Heinkel He 111	First enemy aircraft to fall on British soil since 1918; Stab./KG 26 code 1H+JA destroyed. Pilot Unteroffizier Lehmkuhl and Leutnant Niehoff were wounded and two other crew members killed.

3–5.	15 August 1940	3 x He 111s	Unknown. Claimed at 13:15.

6–9.	9 September 1940	3 x He 111s 1 x Bf 109	Claimed over the Brooklands area at 17:45. The identity of the He 111s are unknown.

10–12.	15 September 1940	2 x Bf 109s 1 x Do 17	Claimed two Bf 109s over Edenbridge, Kent at 12:00. Later, at 14:30, claimed a Do 17 over Rochester, Kent.

13.	16 September 1940	1 x He 111	Awarded DFC*DSO Victory claimed at night, 01:00. Location of victory not recorded.

14–18.	7 October 1940	5 x Bf 109s	Claimed four in one battle at 13:30—one near the village of Brasted, Westerham; one east of Biggin Hill; Maidstone; and the final opponent near Ashford, Kent.

19.	20 October 1940	1 x Bf 109	His first victory that day can be identified as belonging to 3. Staffel Lehrgeschwader 2 (LG 2—Learning Wing).

20.	26 October 1940	1 x Bf 109

21.	27 October 1940	1 x Bf 109	Claimed a Bf 109 at 09:30 over Croydon, Dungeness. The Germans lost 13 Bf 109s to all causes on this date.

22. (Uncredited)	1 November 1940	1 x Bf 109	Logged as a claim over Faversham at 08:15. A Bf 109 did crash near McKellar, and no other RAF pilot claimed it as destroyed.

TOTALS	21 kills

Sentence(s)

Archie McKellar destroyed three He 111s.

final_sentence: Archie McKellar destroyed three He 111s.