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{{Short description|British World War I flying ace}}
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{{Infobox military person
| name          = Guy Patrick Spence Reid
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| birth_date    = {{Birth date|df=yes|1897|5|18}}
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1917|10|16|1897|5|18}}
| birth_place   = [[Puerto de la Cruz]], [[Tenerife]], Canary Islands, Spain
| death_place   = Lincolnshire, England
| placeofburial = Newport Cemetery, [[Lincoln, England|Lincoln]]
| placeofburial_coordinates = {{coord|53|14|27|N|0|32|03|W|display=inline,title}}
| allegiance    = United Kingdom
| branch        = British Army
| serviceyears  = 1915–1917
| rank          = [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|Captain]]
| unit          = [[Seaforth Highlanders]]<br/>[[No. 20 Squadron RAF|No. 20 Squadron RFC]]
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| battles       = World War I<br/>{{*}}[[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]]
| awards        = [[Military Cross]]
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Captain '''Guy Patrick Spence Reid''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|MC}} (18 May 1897 – 16 October 1917) was a British [[World War I]] [[flying ace]] credited with five aerial victories.<ref name="theaerodrome">{{cite web |url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/reid4.php |title=Guy Patrick Spence Reid |work=The Aerodrome |year=2015 |access-date=4 December 2015}}</ref>
==Biography==
Reid was born in [[Puerto de la Cruz]], [[Tenerife]],<ref name="EssexNews">{{cite news |title=Flying Officer's Sad End |newspaper=Essex Newsman |location=Essex, England |date=20 October 1917 |url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/images/aces/england/reid4_2.jpg |access-date=4 December 2015}}</ref>
the son of Thomas Miller Reid and his wife Lisette (née Livings).<ref name="cwgc">{{cite web |url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/380729/REID,%20GUY%20PATRICK%20SPENCE |title=Casualty Details: Reid, Guy Patrick Spence |work=[[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]] |year=2015 |access-date=4 December 2015}}</ref> His father was the British [[Vice consul|Vice-Consul]] there.<ref name="EssexNews"/>
After [[passing out]] from the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]], he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the [[Seaforth Highlanders]] (Ross-shire Buffs, The Duke of Albany's) regiment on 11 August 1915.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=10 August 1915 |issue=29258 |page=7905 |nolink=yes}}</ref> Reid was granted Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate No. 1693 on 4 September, after soloing a [[Maurice Farman]] biplane at the Military School, [[Farnborough Airport|Farnborough]],<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1915/1915%20-%200697.html |title=Aviators' Certificates |issue=351 |volume=VII |page=697 |journal=[[Flight International|Flight]] |date=17 September 1915 |access-date=4 December 2015}}</ref> and on 21 October he was appointed a flying officer, seconded to the [[Royal Flying Corps]].<ref>{{London Gazette |date=12 November 1915 |issue=29364 |pages=11206–11207  |nolink=yes}}</ref>
Reid was sent to France in January 1916,<ref name="EssexNews"/> to serve in [[No. 20 Squadron RAF|No. 20 Squadron RFC]]. He gained his first aerial victory on 7 February, when he won the first clash between a [[Fokker Eindekker]] and the [[Royal Aircraft Factory FE.2b|FE.2b]] by driving off the German aircraft with a smoking engine.{{sfnp|Guttman|Dempsey|2009|p=26}} By 6 September, he had run his score up to five,{{sfnp|Shores|Franks|Guest|1990|p=318}} becoming one of the 44 aces that would serve in No. 20 Squadron during the war.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/services/gbritain/rfc/20.php |title=20 Squadron |work=The Aerodrome |year=2015 |access-date=4 December 2015}}</ref>
He was awarded the Military Cross on 26 September,{{sfnp|Shores|Franks|Guest|1990|p=318}} and on 30 October he was appointed a [[flight commander]] with the temporary rank of captain.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=10 November 1916 |issue=29818 |page=10858 |nolink=yes}}</ref> In December he returned to England to serve as a flying instructor at an RFC base in [[Lincolnshire]],<ref name="EssexNews"/> and was promoted to lieutenant on 1 January 1917.<ref>{{London Gazette |date=27 March 1917 |issue=30002 |page=3003 |nolink=yes}}</ref>
On 16 October 1917, while instructing Second Lieutenant Cameron of Aberdeen, their aircraft crashed from a height of {{convert|900|ft}} and both men were killed. He was, at the time, engaged to Miss Margaret Sheldon of Chelmsford.<ref name="EssexNews"/> He is buried in Newport Cemetery, Lincoln.<ref name="cwgc"/>
==Honours and awards==
;Military Cross
:Second Lieutenant Guy Patrick Spence Reid, Seaforth Highlanders and Royal Flying Corps.
::"For conspicuous skill and gallantry on many occasions. Capt. Dixon-Spain, with 2nd Lt. Reid as pilot, attacked and drove back a hostile machine. A few minutes later four hostile machines were seen, three of which were attacked one after another and driven back, the fourth being accounted for by another patrol. Another time they attacked two hostile machines, shot down one and drove the other back. Two days later they attacked two more machines, of which one is believed to have been destroyed, the other being pursued back to its aerodrome."<ref>{{London Gazette |date=26 September 1916 |supp=y |issue=29765 |pages=9429–9430  |nolink=yes}}</ref>
==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book |title=Pusher Aces of World War I |first1=Jon |last1=Guttman |first2=Harry |last2=Dempsey |publisher=[[Osprey Publishing]] |year=2009 |isbn=978-1-84603-417-6 |name-list-style=amp}}
* {{cite book |first1=Christopher F. |last1=Shores |first2=Norman |last2=Franks |authorlink2=Norman Franks |first3=Russell F. |last3=Guest |title=Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915–1920 |location=London, UK |publisher=Grub Street |year=1990 |isbn=978-0-948817-19-9 |name-list-style=amp}}
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