Hector Eugene Joseph Garaud

Name:

Country:

France

Rank:

Sous Lieutenant

Service:

French Air Service

Units:

V97; Spa38

Victories:

Born:

27 August 1897

Place of Birth:

Saint Antoine

Died:

05 April 1940

Place of Death:

Montpellier

Garaud entered the French Air Service in 1915 and became a pilot the following year. During the war, he accumulated 495 hours of flight time. On 26 March 1918, he was wounded when a bullet passed through his right lung. He was wounded again on 3 October 1918 when a fragment from an exploding shell hit him in the face.

FRENCH WAR ACE KILLED IN CRASH

PARIS, April 6 (AP)—Major Hector Garaud, French air ace who was credited with bringing down 23 enemy planes during the first World war, was killed yesterday in an airplane accident at Montpelier [sic] where he was serving as an instructor.

The Ogden Standard-Examiner - Saturday, April 6, 1940

Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur

"Pursuit pilot beyond compare, he has downed eleven enemy planes. He was seriously wounded after having downed his 12th plane." Légion d'Honneur citation

Victories

	Date	Time	Unit	Aircraft	Opponent	Location
1	12 May 1917		Spa38		EA
2	29 Oct 1917		Spa38		EA	Somme-Py
3	13 Nov 1917		Spa38		EA	Somme-Py
4	12 Dec 1917		Spa38		Rumpler C	Louvercy
5	22 Dec 1917		Spa38		Two-seater ¹	Louvercy
6	23 Dec 1917		Spa38		Two-seater ²	Tahure
7	01 Jan 1918		Spa38		EA	Somme-Py
8	19 Feb 1918		Spa38		EA	Prunay
9	06 Mar 1918		Spa38		EA	Main de Massiges
10	08 Mar 1918		Spa38		Two-seater	St. Martin l'Heureux
11	11 Mar 1918		Spa38		EA	Auberive-Dontrien
12	26 Mar 1918		Spa38		Rumpler C	Châlons
13	12 Aug 1918		Spa38		Fokker D.VII	Vitry

1	Shared with S/Lt Gabriel Guérin, MdL Marcel Henriot
2	Shared with S/Lt Georges Madon

Books

Over the Front: by Norman L. R. Franks, Frank W. Bailey / Hardcover / Grub Street the Basement (May 1992)