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credited with five aerial victories. Lindup scored five victories between 4 February and 31 May 1918 while flying a

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. His observer gunners included fellow aces M. B. Mather, Ernest Deighton, and Henry Crowe.

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''Above the Trenches: a Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915–1920.'' Christopher F. Shores, Norman L. R. Franks, Russell Guest. Grub Street, 1990. , . Royal Flying Corps officers Recipients of the Military Cross South African World War I flying aces White South African people {{RAF-bio-stub