Victims of Manfred von Richthofen. Men whose small claim to fame comes not from their own achievements but rather from the notoriety of the man who shot them down. However, we do know who these ill-fated young men were:
No. 22 - 2/Lt J. B. E. Crosbee
No. 27 - Lt A. E. Boultbee
No. 57 - Sgt, H. E. Whatley
No. 76 - Captain S. P. Smith
(Historical note: Though he does count as a "victim" of von Richthofen's, Crosbee, No. 22, survived his encounter with the Red Baron, as did his observer, Sgt. J. E. Prance. Prance would later die from the great influenza epidemic which killed tens of millions of lives around the world; far more that were lost in the Great War itself) .
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