Guy Wareing


Captain Guy Wilbraham Wareing was a British World War I flying ace credited with nine aerial victories.

Biography

Wareing was born in Latchford, Warrington, Lancashire, the son of Frederick William Wareing, an engineer, and his wife Jessie Mary.
On 30 August 1917 he was commissioned from cadet to temporary second lieutenant on the General List to serve in the Royal Flying Corps, being confirmed in his rank and appointed a flying officer on 14 February 1918.
Wareing was posted to No. 29 Squadron RAF in June 1918 to fly the S.E.5a single-seat fighter. He gained his first victory on 12 August, destroying a Pfalz D.III fighter over Ploegsteert, Belgium. After destroying two reconnaissance aircraft and driving another down out of control, Wareing became both an ace and a balloon buster by destroying an observation balloon over Gheluvelt on 7 September 1918. He then sent a Fokker D.VII down in flames, and destroyed three more balloons, two of them on two separate sorties on 29 September. He was appointed a temporary captain on 7 October 1918.
On 27 October 1918 Wareing was killed when he was shot down by a Fokker D.VII flown by Leutnant Josef Raesch of Jasta 43. He is buried in the :nl:Kerkhof van Rumillies|churchyard of Église Sainte-Marie-Madeleine, Rumillies, Tournai, Hainaut, Belgium, where his is the only Commonwealth War Grave.
Wareing's award of the Distinguished Flying Cross was gazetted posthumously on 3 December 1918. His citation read:

List of aerial victories

No.Date/TimeAircraft/
Serial No.		OpponentResultLocation
112 August 1918
@ 0920		S.E.5a
Pfalz D.IIIDestroyedPloegsteert
219 August 1918
@ 1115		S.E.5a
DFW CDestroyedEast of Bailleul
331 August 1918
@ 1450		S.E.5a
LVG COut of controlEast of Estaires
46 September 1918
@ 1800		S.E.5a
DFW CDestroyedSouth-east of Pérenchies
57 September 1918
@ 0655		S.E.5a
BalloonDestroyedGheluvelt
615 September 1918
@ 1845		S.E.5a
Fokker D.VIIDestroyed in flamesRoulers-Rumbeke
727 September 1918
@ 0845		S.E.5a
BalloonDestroyedMoorslede
829 September 1918
@ 1000		S.E.5a
BalloonDestroyedSouth-east of Armentières
929 September 1918
@ 1410		S.E.5a
BalloonDestroyedEast of Comines