Herbert Ellis (aviator)

Lieutenant Herbert Edward Oscar Ellis, MC, (born 15 July 1893, date of death unknown) was a World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories. On 4 May 1917, after running out of machine gun ammunition, he scored his third victory of the day with pistol fire.

Ellis scored four victories during Bloody April, 1917, on the 13th, 23rd, 26th, and 28th. On 4 May 1917, he engaged three Albatros fighters over Douai. One he shot down at 500 feet, a second he sent into a crash-landing, but the third got on his tail even as Ellis ran out of machine gun ammunition. He managed to drop below it and emptied his Colt pistol into it. It fell into a sideslip that tore off its bottom wing, then plunged into a pond. Ellis' final tally was six enemy planes destroyed, one driven down out of control. Two days after this triple triumph, Ellis was injured in a crash which ended his career as a fighter pilot. He was returned to England.