Name
Peter Joseph Moloney
Born
1893-08-21
Birth Place
Ennismore, ON
Occupation
Principal of Walkerton Business College
Died
1951-01-06
Death Place
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Awards
Military Cross (Nov. 1917)
Service Record 1
Highest Rank
2nd Lieutenant
Conflict
Battalion
Canadian Field Artillery
Enlisted
Enlistment /Transfer Date
1915
Service Record 2
Conflict
Battalion
Company
84 Squadron
Enlistment /Transfer Date
1916-12-06 (approx.)
Wounded Date
1917-11-22
Wounds
He was flying in his SE5a single-seater aeroplane (B4886) when he was attacked by six German aeroplanes and was shot in the thigh.
Artefacts, Photographs & Resources
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Notes
Son of Eugene Joseph Moloney and Mary Agnes (McAuliffe) Moloney. He worked in Walkerton at one time, as principal of Walkerton Business College. He married Edith Gladys Williams Barton and they raised a family of five sons in Detroit, MI.Sources & Links
- Bruce Remembers Feedback, November 16, 2019; The Aerodrome records for P.J. Moloney at http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68937 and http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68776;- Book Excerpt at https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/themes/defence/caf/militaryhistory/dhh/popular/airmen-ww1-10.pdf accessed November 18, 2019;
- Royal Flying Corps People Index, http://www.airhistory.org.uk/rfc/people_index.html, accessed November 18, 2019; Paisley Advocate, Dec. 4, 1918, p. 8; The National Archives, U.K. (http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q=peter+;
News Clippings
Supplement to The London Gazette, April 25, 1918, p. 5009
Supplement to the London Gazette, June 22, 1917, https://www.thegazette.co.uk/
Paisley Advocate, Dec. 4, 1918, p. 8
Paisley Advocate, December 10, 1914
Canadian Echo Wiarton, January 22, 1919
