Richard Minifie, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian flying ace, Royal Australian Air Force officer and businessman.
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Place of Birth: Alphington, Victoria, Australia
About Richard Minifie
- Richard Pearman Minifie, (2 February 1898 – 31 March 1969) was an Australian fighter pilot and flying ace of the First World War.
- Born in Victoria, he attended Melbourne Church of England Grammar School.
- Travelling to the United Kingdom, he enlisted in the Royal Naval Air Service in June 1916.
- Accepted for flight training, he completed his instruction in December and joined No.
- 1 (Naval) Squadron RNAS on the Western Front in January 1917, flying Sopwith Triplanes.
- He went on to score seventeen aerial victories on this type of machine throughout the year, becoming both the youngest Australian flying ace of the First World War and No.
- 1 (Naval) Squadron's highest-scoring ace on the Triplane.
- The unit re-equipped with the Sopwith Camel late in 1917, with Minifie going on to achieve a further four victories on the aircraft, raising his final tally to a score of twenty-one aircraft shot down. Minifie crash landed in German-held territory in March 1918, and spent the remainder of the war in prisoner-of-war camps in Germany.
- He was released at the end of the war, and was demobilised as a captain in September 1919.
- Returning to Australia, he joined the staff of his father's flour milling business, James Minifie & Co.
- Pty Ltd.
- He served as a squadron leader in the Air Training Corps of the Royal Australian Air Force during the Second World War.
- Minifie returned to the flour milling industry after the war, becoming managing director of James Minifie & Co.
- Pty Ltd in 1949.
- He died in 1969 at the age of seventy-one.
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