Euan Dickson

Euan Dickson DSC and bar, DFC was a British born New Zealander bomber pilot in the First World War. Serving with the Royal Naval Air Service and subsequently the Royal Air Force he flew over 150 missions flying the D.H.4 aircraft. As well as flying so many bombing missions he, and his observer, was also credited with shooting downenemy aircraft. After the war he returned to New Zealand and was the first person to fly across the Cook Strait.

Dickson was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 1882 and emigrated to New Zealand about 1912 taking a job with an engineering firm in Thames on the North Island.

Source: Wikipedia