Major Victor Henry Huston was a First World War flying ace credited with six aerial victories.
10 Facts About Victor Huston
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Victor Huston's parents had lived for some time in Cape Town, South Africa, but had returned to Northern Ireland in 1889.
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Victor Huston enlisted into the Canadian Expeditionary Force in September 1914 and was assigned to the Canadian Army Service Corps.
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Victor Huston was commissioned as a lieutenant on 13 September 1915.
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Victor Huston was seconded for service in the British Army's Royal Flying Corps on 8 December 1916, and was appointed a flying officer the same day.
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On 18 June 1917 Victor Huston was awarded the Military Cross.
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Victor Huston was promoted to captain in the Canadian Army Service Corps on 5 August 1917, but remained seconded to the RFC.
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Victor Huston received a special appointment as a flight commander on 20 March 1918.
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However, in 1918 the British, as part of their compensation for the requestioning in 1914 of the two Almirante Latorre-class battleships that were being built for Chile in England, supplied them with a number of aircraft, and Victor Huston was sent to serve as Chief Instructor to the Servicio de Aviacion Militar de Chile.
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Victor Huston returned to England and lived in London, but was fatally injured during the Second World War in an air raid on Coventry, where he died at Gulson Road Hospital on 10 April 1941.