ACE-04P-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale figure we are offering. It comes in its original box and is in like-new condition.
John Jenkins Designs ACE-04P Donald Roderick Maclaren
Donald Roderick MacLaren DSO, MC & Bar, DFC (28 May 1893 - 4 July 1988) was credited with 54 victories and, after the war, helped found the Royal Canadian Air Force.
In September, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. When the squadron commander was killed in a crash later in the year, MacLaren was given command. In late October, MacLaren, who had escaped injury in combat, broke his leg during a friendly wrestling match with another member of his squadron. He was sent back to England on 6 November and was in the hospital when the Armistice was announced. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his leadership of the squadron in the last months of the war. MacLaren finished the war with a Military Cross and bar, a Distinguished Flying Cross and the DSO. He was also awarded the French Legion of Honour and Croix de guerre.
It should be noted that his first dogfight wasn't until February 1918 and that he scored all his victories in only nine months.