List of aerial victories of Fritz Rumey

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Fritz Rumey was a German First World War fighter ace credited with 45 confirmed aerial victories.

List of victories[edit]

See also: Aerial victory standards of World War I

This list is complete for entries, though obviously not for all details. Background data was abstracted from Above the Lines: The Aces and Fighter Units of the German Air Service, Naval Air Service and Flanders Marine Corps, 1914–1918, ISBN 978-0-948817-73-1, pp. 193–194. Abbreviations were expanded by the editor creating this list.

No. Date/time Victim Squadron Location Remarks
1 6 July 1917 @ 1000 hours Observation balloon Boursies, France
2 19 August 1917 @ 0820 hours Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8 No. 59 Squadron RFC Épehy, France
3 22 November 1917 @ 0910 hours Sopwith Camel No. 43 Squadron RFC Marcoing, France Ace Gerard Crole POW[1]
4 23 November 1917 @ 1200 hours Sopwith Camel No. 3 Squadron RFC Bourlon Wood, France
5 23 November 1917 @ 1300 hours Armstrong Whitworth FK.8 No. 8 Squadron RFC Southwest of Marcoing, France
6 13 January 1918 @ 1230 hours Bristol F.2 Fighter No. 11 Squadron RFC South of Beaumont, France
7 28 January 1918 @ 1215 hours Bristol F.2 Fighter No. 11 Squadron RFC Graincourt-lès-Havrincourt, France
8 29 January 1918 @ 1210 hours Airco DH.4 No. 25 Squadron RFC Saint-Quentin, France
9 26 February 1918 @ 1600 hours Airco DH.4 No. 25 Squadron RFC North of Bussigny
10 17 March 1918 @ 1025 hours Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a Marcoing, France
11 23 March 1918 @ 1320 hours Sopwith Dolphin No. 79 Squadron RFC Cartigny, France
12 24 March 1918 Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8
13 28 March 1918 @ 0910 hours Sopwith Camel No. 43 Squadron RFC Bray-sur-Somme, France
14 12 April 1918 @ 1900 hours Sopwith Dolphin Northwest of Albert, France
15 Afternoon of 2 May 1918 Sopwith Camel No. 65 Squadron RAF Villers-Bretonneux, France
16 9 May 1918 Breguet 14 North of Villequier, France
17 10 May 1918 Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a No. 56 Squadron RAF East of Hamel, France
18 16 May 1918 Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a No. 84 Squadron RAF Southwest of Courcelette, France
19 17 May 1918 Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a Puzieux, France
20 18 May 1918 SPAD Moreuil, France
21 20 May 1918 Sopwith Camel No. 65 Squadron RAF South of Morlancourt, France
22 2 June 1918 @ 1910 hours Sopwith Camel Hangard, France
23 7 June 1918 Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a No. 24 Squadron RAF Rosières,[a] France Ace James Dawe KIA[2]
24 25 June 1918 Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a No. 24 Squadron RAF West of Albert, France
25 26 June 1918 @ 2025 hours Sopwith Camel No. 65 Squadron RAF East of Bouzincourt, France Ace Edward Carter Eaton KIA[3]
26 27 June 1918 Sopwith Dolphin No. 23 Squadron RAF Vicinity of the Somme, France
27 27 June 1918 Sopwith Camel No. 70 Squadron RAF Bray-sur-Somme, France
28 1 July 1918 Sopwith Camel No. 65 Squadron RAF
29 3 July 1918 Sopwith Camel
30 3 September 1918 @ 1847 hours Airco DH.9 No. 98 Squadron RAF North of Bertincourt, France
31 4 September 1918 @ 1830 hours Sopwith Camel Queant, France
32 5 September 1918 @ 1005 hours Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a North of Bouchain, France
33 7 September 1918 @ 1125 hours Airco DH.4 No. 205 Squadron RAF Saint-Quentin, France
34 14 September 1918 @ 1110 hours Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a No. 84 Squadron RAF South of Le Catelet, France
35 16 September 1918 @ 0900 hours Airco DH.9 No. 57 Squadron RAF Villers-Guislain, France
36 16 September 1918 @ 1230 hours Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a Marquion, France
37 16 September 1918 @ 1235 hours Sopwith Camel No. 3 Squadron RAF Marquion, France
38 17 September 1918 @ 0905 Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a No. 84 Squadron RAF Rumilly, France
39 17 September 1918 @ 1300 hours Sopwith Camel 17th Aero Squadron, USAAS Northwest of Cambrai, France
40 17 September 1918 @ 1910 hours Sopwith Camel No. 46 Squadron RAF Southwest of Cambrai, France
41 23 September 1918 @ 1815 hours Sopwith Dolphin No. 87 Squadron RAF Southwest of Baralle, France and Queant, France
42 24 September 1918 @ 0820 hours Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5a South of Buissy, France
43 26 September 1918 @ 1410 hours Airco DH.4 Gouzeaucourt, France
44 26 September 1918 @ 1805 hours Bristol F.2 Fighter "L" Flight Cambrai, France
45 27 September 1918 @ 1208 hours Sopwith Camel No. 54 Squadron RAF East of Marquion, France

Footnotes[edit]

  1. ^ There are several places in France called Rosières, some of them in the east and northeast. It is unclear which this one was.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Above the Trenches p. 125
  2. ^ Above the Trenches, p. 136
  3. ^ Above the Trenches, p. 146

Sources[edit]

  • Shores, Christopher F; Franks, Norman L R; Guest, Russell (1990), Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920, Grubb Street, ISBN 978-0-948817-19-9
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