Alfred Stewart Hemming | |
Birth Date: | 17 August 1895[1] |
Death Date: | 27 December 1920 (aged 25) |
Birth Place: | Banbury, Oxfordshire, England |
Death Place: | Cape Town, South Africa |
Branch: | Royal Air Force |
Rank: | Captain |
Unit: | No. 41 Squadron RAF |
Awards: | Distinguished Flying Cross |
Captain Alfred Stewart Hemming DFC (17 August 1895 – 27 December 1920) was an English World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial[2] victories.[3] [4]
Hemming was born in Banbury, Oxfordshire, to William Hemming, a shopkeeper from Banbury, and Alison Hemming, from Yorkshire.[5] After his father's death in 1908, he moved to South Africa, where he attended high school. He was killed in an air crash in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1920.[1]