Fred Parkinson Holliday

Who was Fred Parkinson Holliday?

Fred Parkinson Holliday DSO, MC, AFC was an Australian fighter pilot and ace of the First World War. He shot down 17 German aircraft between his entry into the war and its end, making him the 11th highest-scoring Australian-born pilot of the war. He served with the RFC and RAF throughout, in the No. 48 Squadron. He was awarded the Military Cross on 26 July 1917 for a particularly successful encounter with five German aircraft, and was later given the Distinguished Service Order. He survived the war and returned to Canada, where he died at the age of 72.

A Sapper in the Canadian Engineers he was appointed a temporary Second Lieutenant in December 1915.