Claim: Thomas Luke was born in England and served in the Royal Air Force where he shot down fighter planes.
Evidence: (1891-06-21)21 June 1891
Plymouth, England British Army
Royal Air Force On 8 August he shared in the shooting down in flames of a Halberstadt C reconnaissance aircraft over Harbonnières with Captain Robert Foster, and Lieutenants Cedric Edwards, Kenneth M. Walker and M. A. Harker. The Fokker D.VII was a German World War I fighter aircraft designed by Reinhold Platz of the Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. His sixth and last aerial victory came on 25 August, when he destroyed a Fokker D.VII over Baissy. His final tally was two enemy aircraft burnt, two destroyed and two driven down out of control.