Ronald Mauduit

Lieutenant Ronald Frank Strickland Mauduit (30 October 1895 –13 March 1928) was a First World War flying ace and was credited with nine aerial victories.

Early life
Mauduit was the son of Annie Maude and Frank Rowley Metcalfe Derittick Mauduit. He was born at Elligapore, British India, on 30 October 1895.

First World War
Mauduit was a cadet at RMC Sandhurst when the European War broke out. On 15 August 1914 he was commissioned into the 7th (Princess Royal's) Dragoon Guards. On 17 May 1915 he was promoted to Temporary Lieutenant; he was confirmed in this rank on 9 August 1915.

He earned Pilot's Certificate number 4271 on 24 February 1917. On 25 April 1917 he was seconded to Royal Flying Corps as a Lieutenant. On 12 July 1917, he began his victory string while assigned to 11 Squadron to fly a Bristol F.2 Fighter. By 17 October, with the aid of either E. R. Dibbs, Jack Mason, or C. C. Dennis manning the guns in the rear seat, he had driven down out of control six Albatros D.Vs. On 21 October, with Leslie McRobert in the back seat, Mauduit set a D.V. afire, destroyed another, and drove a third one down over Lecluse. On 12 December 1917, he was raised from Flying Officer to Flight Commander with the concomitant rank of Temporary Captain.

Post war
Sometime during July, August, or September 1919, he married Irene Helen Brooksbank at Driffield, Yorkshire, England.

On 8 December 1922, he was granted seniority as Captain from 20 November 1919.

Honors and awards
Military Cross (MC)

Lt. Ronald Frank Strickland Mauduit, D.G. and R.F.C.

For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He carried out a most valuable single machine reconnaissance at a height of 500 feet, searching enemy roads and railways and obtaining important information. On another occasion, while on a photographic reconnaissance, he encountered twenty hostile scouts and drove down two of them out of control. He has destroyed ten enemy machines, and shown the greatest determination at his work.