Daniel Murray Bayne Galbraith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian flying ace
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Place of Birth: Carleton Place, Ontario, Canada
About Daniel Murray Bayne Galbraith
- Captain Daniel Murray Bayne "Nigger" Galbraith was an early World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories.Galbraith was the son of R.
- A.
- Galbraith.
- The younger Galbraith was a student at Saint Andrews College in Toronto when World War I started.
- Accompanied by his friends Roy Brown and Stearne Edwards he trained to fly at a private school in the United States.
- Galbraith earned Aero Club of America certificate no.
- 356 on 3 November 1915.
- He joined the Royal Naval Air Service and was stationed at Dover Seaplane Base on 29 May 1916.
- Shortly thereafter, on 12 June, he was sent to 1 Naval Wing.
- Three days later, while flying a Nieuport fighter, he flamed a German seaplane.
- He destroyed another on 28 September, before switching to the newly formed 8 Naval Squadron and its Sopwith Pups.
- He added four more wins in a month, from 22 October to 23 November 1916.
- He was withdrawn from combat for a rest on 1 December.
- After a spell as an instructor, he flew anti-submarine patrols in Italy in 1918.He joined the Canadian Air Force after the war; however, he was killed in an auto accident on 29 March 1921.
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