Alexandre Marty

Lieutenant Alexandre Paul Leon Madeleine Marty was a French World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories.

Biography See also Aerial victory standards of World War I

Alexandre Paul Leon Madeleine Marty was born in Toulon, France, on 9 February 1894.

He had a successful career in the cavalry, rising through the enlisted ranks before being confirmed in officer-hood as a Sous lieutenant on 21 July 1916. On 26 August 1916, he was detached to pilot training at Avord. Rather unusually, he earned a Civil Pilot's Brevet on 2 October 1916. Details of his ensuing Military Pilot's Brevet are not known. However, once trained, he was posted to Escadrille N.77. He must have arrived at his new posting before 3 May 1917, as he scored his first aerial victory the day before. He would score two more before he was promoted to Lieutenant on 6 July 1917. Five days later, he was made a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur. He would shoot down two more German airplanes, becoming a flying ace on 17 October 1917. On 5 November 1917, serious injuries from a crash-landing in rugged terrain saw him invalided him out of his squadron.

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