serviceyears branch death_date birth_place unit awards birth_date rank article_title name
ca 1917 & ndash ; 1920 aviation unknown manchester , england no. 3 squadron rfc/no . 203 squadron raf distinguished flying cross 11 october 1893 lieutenant william sidebottom -lrb- raf officer -rrb-
 william sidebottom
william sidebottom -lrb- raf officer -rrb-

lieutenant william sidebottom -lrb- born 11 october 1893 , died 8 december 1920 -rrb- was a world war i flying ace credited with fourteen aerial victories .
sidebottom joined the royal naval air service on 11 october 1917 .
in 1918 , he was assigned to 203 squadron as a sopwith camel pilot .
he scored his first win on 16 june , sharing the destruction of a dfw two-seater reconnaissance plane with lieutenant edwin hayne and three other pilots .
he then accumulated a trickle of victories through 29 october 1918 , sharing in the destruction of two reconnaissance planes with captain leonard henry rochford and the midair burning of another with captain arthur whealy .
sidebottom 's final toll was the destruction of seven enemy airplanes , with five of those wins shared ; seven driven down out of control , including two shared triumphs .
