serviceyears death_date birth_place allegiance unit birth_date article_title name
1916-17 12 november 1917 new westminster , british columbia united kingdom no. 10 naval squadron july 1894 george leonard trapp
 george leonard trapp
george leonard trapp

george leonard trapp -lrb- july 1894 -- november 12 , 1917 -rrb- was a canadian flying ace during world war i .
he was born in new westminster , british columbia , the son of thomas john trapp , was educated at mcgill college and joined the royal navy air service -lrb- rnas -rrb- in 1916 , serving with no. 10 naval squadron .
he claimed his first three victories flying sopwith triplanes in august 1917 and two more victories in september while flying sopwith camels .
trapp was killed in action in november when he was shot down by bruno justinius of bavarian jasta 35 .
he had claimed one more victory that morning before being shot down in the afternoon .
his two brothers stanley valentine trapp and donovan trapp also died while serving with the rnas : donovan was killed in action and stanley valentine died during a test flight .
another brother thomas saw action at the front and returned after being seriously wounded .
raymond collishaw married trapp 's sister neita .
