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{{Short description|French flying ace}}
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{{Infobox military person
| name = Fernand Bonneton
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| birth_date = 10 May 1890
| death_date = 24{{Death Junedate and age|df=yes|1922|6|24|1890|5|10}}
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| birth_place = [[La Coucourde-Montelimar]], [[Drôme]] department, France
| death_place = [[Brussels]], Belgium
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| commands = [[1e Fighter Groupe]]
| battles =
| awards = ''[[Legion d'honneur]]'', ''[[Croix de guerreGuerre]]'', [[Mentioned in Dispatches]] six times, plus five foreign decorations
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| laterwork =
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Commandant '''Fernand Bonneton''' was a French World War I [[flying ace]] credited with nine confirmed aerial victories. He would survive the war, only to die in an aviation accident on 24 June 1922.
 
==Early life==
 
Fernand Bonneton was born in [[La Coucourde]], north of [[Montelimar]], on 10 May 1890.<ref name=otf>Franks, Bailey, p. 121.</ref>
 
==World War I==
In the beginning of World War I, Bonneton served in the cavalry until he was wounded twice. After a voluntary transfer to the infantry, he was wounded twice more and invalided out of ground service in May 1916. He then volunteered for transfer to aviation duty. After training at [[Juvisy]], he was stationed on the [[Eastern Front (World War I)|Eastern Front]]; in Spring 1917, he was in [[RumaniaRomania]]. He was credited with his first aerial victory there on 8 August; there may have been a second, but details are not available. At any rate, he earned two Mentions in Dispatches and five foreign decorations before moving south to Italy, where he scored again on 30 October 1917.<ref>{{cite book |titlename= Over the Front: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the United States and French Air Services, 1914-1918 |page= 121 }}<otf/ref>
 
In May 1918, he was moved back to France to join Escadrille Spa69 (the 'Spa' denoting the squadron's use of [[Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés|Spad]]s). On 10 July 1918, Bonneton shot down his third enemy airplane. He then began a career as a [[balloon buster]], running off a string of five wins over them, along with another win over an enemy plane, by 22 October 1918.<ref>{{cite book |titlename= Over the Front: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the United States and French Air Services, 1914-1918 |page= 121 }}<otf/ref>
 
==Postwar==
Bonneton commanded a squadron in Poland at war's end. Then he became Commandant of 1e Fighter Groupe. While serving in this capacity, he died in a flying accident at Brussels on 24 June 1922.<ref>{{cite book |title= Over the Front: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the United States and French Air Services, 1914-1918 |page= 121 }}</ref>▼
 
▲Bonneton commanded a squadron in Poland at war's end. Then he became Commandant of 1e Fighter Groupe. While serving in this capacity, he died in a flying accident at Brussels on 24 June 1922.<ref>{{cite book |titlename= Over the Front: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the United States and French Air Services, 1914-1918 |page= 121 }}<otf/ref>
==External links==
 
* http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/bonneton.php▼
==Endnotes==
{{Reflist}}
 
==References==
* ''Over the Front: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the United States and French Air Services, 1914-1918'' (1992). Norman L. R. Franks, Frank W. Bailey. Grub Street, 1992. {{ISBN |0-948817-54-2}}, {{ISBN |978-0-948817-54-0}}.
 
==EndnotesExternal links==
▲* The Aerodrome website at http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/france/bonneton.php
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{{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
| NAME = Bonneton, Fernand
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
| SHORT DESCRIPTION =
| DATE OF BIRTH = 10 May 1890
| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[La Coucourde-Montelimar]], [[Drôme]] department, France
| DATE OF DEATH = 24 June 1922
| PLACE OF DEATH = Brussels, Belgium
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bonneton, Fernand}}
[[Category:1890 births]]
[[Category:1922 deaths]]
[[Category:Recipients of the Croix de guerreGuerre 1914–1918 (France)]]
[[Category:French military officers]]
[[Category:LégionRecipients d'honneurof recipientsthe Legion of Honour]]
[[Category:French World War I flying aces]]
 
 
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[[fr:Fernand Bonneton]]
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