New Zealander Aces of WW2

Colin Falkland Gray (RAF)

27.7 (+ 22 probs or dams)

"Al"

Alan Christopher Deere (RAF)

22 (+ 10 probs & 18 dam)

"Rosie"

Evan Dall Mackie (both)

21

"Hess"

Raymond Brown Hesselyn (RNZAF)

(POW 3oct43)

21.5 (+ 1 prob & ? dam)

"Bill"

William Vernon Crawford-Compton (both)  

21  (+ 1 shared)

Brian John George Carbury (RAF)

15.5 *

"Johnny"

John Milne Checketts (both)

(Died 20apr06 - aged 94)

14.5 (+ 3 prob & 11 dam)

"Cobber"

* Edgar James Kain (RAF)

1st Allied Ace of WW2
           KIFA 7jun40)
14+    *  *

* Gray Stenborg (both)

(KIA 24sep43)

14.33 - 10.5

"Jack"

John Donald Rae (both)

(POW 22aug43)

13

"Hawkeye"

Edward Preston Wells (both)

13  (+ 3 prob & 15 dams)

Warren Edward Schrader (both)

12

Wilfred Greville Clouston (both)

(POW feb42)

12 - 8.5

Victor Bosanquet Strachan Verity (RAF)

11.5 - 8.2

Minden Vaughan Blake (RAF)

(POW 19aug42)

11.33 - 9.5

Geoffrey Bryson Fisken (both & RAAF)

11 (+5 probables)

George Edmond Jameson (both)

11 (+1 prob & 2 dams)

Derrik Fitzgerald Westenra (both)

11

John Albert Axel Gibson (both)

11.5 - 8     *

* Mervin Robert Bruce Ingram (both)

(Died 11jul44)

10.5 - 8

* Nigel Manfred Park (both)

(MIA 25oct42)

10.25 - 8

* Ernest Leslie Joyce (both)

(KIA 18jun44)

10

"Jamie"

Patrick Geraint Jameson (RAF)

10 - 9

Robert Lawrence Spurdle (both)

10 - 8.5

Irving Stanley Smith (both)

10 - 8

James Chilton Francis Hayter (both)

9

* Paul Watling Rabone (both)

(KIA 24jul44)

9

William Hector Stratton (RAF)

9

Peter Francis Locker Hall (RNZAF)

8

Robert Duncan Yule (RAF)

8

* Reginald Joseph Cowan Grant (both) 

(KIA 28feb44)

8 - 7.5

John Arthur Houlton (both)

8 - 5.75

Eric Steele Doherty (RAF)

7.5 - 7

Hansford Ward Chambers (RAF)

7.1

* Basil Gordon Collyns (RAF)

(KIA 20aug44)

7

Owen Leslie Hardy (RNZAF)

7

* Michael James Herrick (both)

(KIA 16jun44)

7

John Noble MacKenzie (both)

7 - 6

Stanley Franklin Browne (RAF)

7 - 5.5

Roy Emile LeLong (both)

7 - 5  (+8 OTG)

Richard Mackle Trousdale (both)

6.5

Desmond James Scott (both)

6.5 - 5

Alan McGregor Peart (RAF)

6.33 - 5.5

* Derek Harland Ward (RAF)

(KIA 17jun42)

6.25 - 5

Allen Edward Browne (both)

6

Donald Carlson (RAF)

6

Thomas Bernard Fitzgerald (both)

6

* William Henry Hodgson (RAF)

(KIFA 13mar41)

6

Sir Hector Douglas McGregor (RAF)

6

John Howard Player (RAF)

6

Owen Vincent Tracey (RAF)

6

Jeffery George West (RNZAF)

6

* Antonio Simmons Dini (RAF)

(KIFA 31may40)

6 - 5.66  (+ 3 prob & 2 dam)

David Franklin Livingstone (both)

6 - 5.5

* Kenneth William Tait (RAF)

(KIA 4aug41)

6 - 5.5

"Jim"

Cornelius James Sheddan (RNZAF)

(+ 8 V-1s)

5.5  

Charles Roy Bush (RAF)

5.5

Gordon Albert Williams (both)

5.5 - 5

Kenneth William Stewart (RNZAF)

5   (+ 1 probable)

Keith Granville Taylor-Cannon

(+1 V-1)

5   

"Jimmy"

Robert Hamish Balfour (RNZAF)    

5

* Howard Perry Hill (RAF)

(KIA 20sep40)

5

Reginald Jack Hyde (RAF)

5

Ivon Julian (RNZAF)

5

John Rutherford Clark Kilian (both)

5

Keith Ashley Lawrence (RAF)

5

Harold Watson Longley (RAF)

5  (+ 4 damaged)

Russell Merriman MacKenzie (RAF)

5

Camille Enright Malfroy (RAF)

5

* Leighton John Montgomerie (RNZAF)

(KIFA 26/27aug44)

5

Francis Murphy (RNZAF)

(born in UK)

5

Percival Guy Haig Newton (RNZAF)

5

* Harold Leslie North (RAF)

(KIA 1may42)

5

Douglas Nevill Robinson (RNZAF)

5

Eric William Whitley (RAF)

5

* John Edwin Ashley Williams (RAF)

(shot after the"Great Escape"
               29mar44)
5

Brian Wallace Woodman (RNZAF)

5

* Gilbert McLean Hayton (RAF)

(Killed 12sep42 -
      R.M.S. Laconia)
5 -

* Arthur Ernest Umbers (both)

(KIA 14feb45
           +28 V-1's)
5 - 4.?  (+ 2 probables)

"Staff"  "Jack"

John Harry Stafford (RNZAF)

(+8 V-1s)

5 - 4.5

Harvey Nelson Sweetman (RNZAF)

(+10.5 V-1s)

5 - 3  (+ 1 OTG)

Charles William Kelvin Nicholls (RAF)    

5 - 2

O. D. Eagleson

2+ (+20 V-1's)

K. A. Smith

2 (+12 V-1's)

B. J. O'Connor

1+ (+8.5 V-1's)

S. S. Williams

1+ (+8 V-1's)

F. B. Lawless

1 (+10 V-1's)

G. J. Hooper

1 (+8 V-1's)

A. L. Trott

1 (+6 V-1's)

N. J. Powell

1 (+5 V-1's)

S. J. Short

1 (+5 V-1's)

E. W. Tanner

1 (+5 V-1's)

R. B. Bremner

3sh (+7 V-1's)

R. J. Kammock

0 (+20.5 V-1's)

J. H. McCaw

0 (+19.5 V-1's)

Jimmy R. Cullen *

0 (+16 V-1's)

R. J. Danzey

0 (+11 V-1's)

W. A. Kalka

0 (+8 V-1's)

B. M. Hall

0 (+7.5 V-1's)

R. G. Kleinmayer                

0 (+7.5 V-1's)

W. A. Hart

0 (+7 V-1's)

W. L. Miller

0 (+7 V-1's)

B. M. Madden

0 (+6 V-1's)

K. McCarthy

0 (+6 V-1's)

H. M. Mason

0 (+5.5 V-1's)