Guy Reid

Captain Guy Patrick Spence Reid (18 May 1897 – 16 October 1917) was a British World War I flying ace credited with five aerial victories.

Biography Reid was born in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, the son of Thomas Miller Reid and his wife Lisette (née Livings). His father was the British Vice-Consul there. Reid was granted Royal Aero Club Aviators' Certificate No. 1693 on 4 September, after soloing a Maurice Farman biplane at the Military School, Farnborough, and on 21 October he was appointed a flying officer, seconded to the Royal Flying Corps.

Reid was sent to France in January 1916,

He was awarded the Military Cross on 26 September, and on 30 October he was appointed a flight commander with the temporary rank of captain. In December he returned to England to serve as a flying instructor at an RFC base in Lincolnshire,

On 16 October 1917, while instructing Second Lieutenant Cameron of Aberdeen, their aircraft crashed from a height of and both men were killed. He was, at the time, engaged to Miss Margaret Sheldon of Chelmsford.