Alec Cunningham-Reid: Difference between revisions

[[Captain (United Kingdom)|Captain]] '''Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|DFC}} (20 April 1895 – 26 March 1977<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons1.htm |title=Historical list of MPs: House of Commons constituencies beginning with "S" |work=Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages |access-date=21 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091220043003/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Scommons1.htm |archive-date=20 December 2009 |url-status=deadunfit }}</ref>), known in his early life as '''Alec Stratford Reid''', was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[World War I|First World War]] [[flying ace]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/by_name.php?pageNum_names=1&totalRows_names=101&KT_az=R|title=The Aces of World War 1|work=TheAerodrome.com|access-date=28 November 2009}}</ref> credited with seven aerial victories.<ref name="the-aerodrome">{{cite web|url=http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/reid1.php|title=Alec Reid|work=TheAerodrome.com|access-date=21 November 2009}}</ref> After the war, he entered politics as a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]], serving as a [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) for periods between 1922 and 1945.