Guy Wareing

Who was Guy Wareing?

Lieutenant Guy Wilbraham Wareing DFC was a World War I flying ace credited with nine aerial victories.

Wareing joined the Royal Flying Corps in August 1917. He was assigned to 29 Squadron to pilot a Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a in June 1918. On 12 August, he began his victory roll by destroying a German Pfalz D.III fighter over Ploegsteert, Belgium. After destroying two reconnaissance planes and driving another down out of control, Wareing became both an ace and a balloon buster by ruining an observation balloon on 7 September 1918. He burned a Fokker D.VII and destroyed three more balloons, two of those being his last triumphs on two separate sorties on 29 September. On 7 October, he was promoted to Temporary Captain, with the notice appearing in the London Gazette 11 October.

Wareing was shot down and killed by Leutnant Josef Raesch of Jasta 43 on 27 October 1918.