Flight-Lieutenant Samuel Marcus “Kink” Kinkead , 1 Naval Squadron, RNAS(DSC and Bar):

Samuel Marcus Kinkead was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, on the 25 february 1897. He was educated at Jeppe High School in Johannesburg, and joined the RNAS in September 1915. He subsequently served in the Dardanelles with 3 Naval Wing, where he scored his first three victories, the first a Fokker E on the 11 August 1916 over Xanthi, while flying a Bristol Scout. Kinkead then saw action on the Somme and at Ypres while serving with No. 1 Naval Squadron, RNAS, and between the 17 September 1917 and 22 March 1918 was to account for a further 15 German aircraft, shooting down two Albatros DVs on the 15 November 1917, within forty minutes of each other. He was awarded the DSC in February 1918, the citation stating: “In recognition of the conspicuous gallantry and skill displayed by himin the face of the enemy in aerial combats, notably on the following occasions: On the 24 October 1917, he brought down an enemy machine, and immediately afterwards encountered and drove off a group of seven hostile aeroplanes.On the 4 december 1917,he brought down an enemy two-seater machine completely out of control. By his skill and determination in attacking enemy machines he has always shown a fine example to other pilots.” Kinkead was to receive a bar to his DSC in April 1918, and accounted for no-less than 18 enemy aircraft while flying with the RNAS. Following the amalgamation of the RFC and RNAS in April 1918, Kinkead then served with No. 201 Squadron,Royal Air-Force, and added a further sixteen aircraft to his tally of 35 German aircraft shot down, being awarded the DFC and bar, and the DSO. He was , in fact, the top scoring Sopwith Camel ace of 201 Squadron, and the 12th highest scoring Camel ace of the war. Kinkead later served in Russia in 1919/1920,adding another 5 - 10 kills to his wartime tally, and was the top Allied scorer in that theatre. He again saw action in 1921, while serving as a flight commander under the famous Canadian ace Raymond Collishaw in the Middle East, but was sadly killed at Calshot, in Hampshire, in March 1928, while participating as a member of the RAF Schneider Trophy team, in an attempt to raise the world air speed record to more than 300 miles per hour (482,7 Km) while flying a Supermarine S5. Kinkead has been described as “one of the finest RAF officers of his generation”, a glowing tribute indeed, and an apt one. http://peek-01.livejournal.com/46813.html

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