title: George Gauld (aviator)
text: # George Gauld (aviator)
  
  Lieutenant George William Gladstone Gauld was a World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.
  
  Gauld ran up a string of five victories late in World War I while flying a Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a for 74 Squadron. On 30 July 1918, in concert with fellow aces Ira Jones and Harold Shoemaker, he flamed a Rumpler reconnaissance plane. On 2 August, he and Frederick Gordon cooperated to capture an LVG recon plane. On 26 October, Gauld drove down a Fokker D.VII out of control. On 1 November 1918, he captured a Fokker D.VII and drove another one down out of control.
  
  ## Sources of information
  
  * ↑ Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920. p. 164.
  * ↑ "George William Gladstone Gauld". www.theaerodrome.com. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
  * ↑ "Gauld". Retrieved 5 February 2010.
  * ↑ "George William Gladstone Gauld". www.theaerodrome.com. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
  * ↑ "George William Gladstone Gauld". www.theaerodrome.com. Retrieved 5 February 2010.
  