Roger Neville

Captain Roger Henry Gartside Neville was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.

Neville was commissioned in the infantry on 14 July 1915. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps on 5 December. He joined 21 Squadron early in 1916, to fly a Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.12 single-seat bomber. He scored a victory with it on 14 September 1916, destroying a German LVG two-seater reconnaissance plane. Eight days later, he was wounded in action. When he returned to duty, it was as a flight commander with 23 Squadron to fly Spad VIIs. Flying Spad no. B3519, he tallied four victories in July 1917.

Honors and awards
Military Cross (MC)

2nd Lt. (temp. Capt.) Roger Henry Gartside Neville, D. of Corn. L.I. and R.F.C. For conspicuous skill and gallantry. He is a fine leader of patrol work, and has done much to keep enemy machines away from our lines. On one occasion, flying in a rain storm, after nearly colliding with an enemy machine he pursued it and brought it down half a mile from an enemy aerodome. Supplement to the London Gazette, 14 November 1916 (29824/11062)