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Robert MacIntyre Gordon
Lieutenant Robert MacIntyre Gordon (30 September 1899 – 19 April 1983) was a Glasgow-born seventeen-year-old World War I flying ace. He was credited with nine aerial victories as a Sopwith Camel pilot for the Royal Naval Air Service in 1918. Postwar, he became a medical doctor.
Early life.
Robert MacIntyre Gordon was born in Queen's Park, Glasgow, Scotland on 30 September 1899.
World War I.
During World War I, Gordon became a Sopwith Camel
Australia, the Middle East, and Italy, and commanded the Māori Battalion. He was awarded the D.S.O. After the war, he was commander for troops in Japan. MacIntyre commanded the Divisional Cavalry Regiment from 1945 to 1946.
Member of Parliament.
MacIntyre represented the Hastings electorate in Parliament from to 1972, when he was defeated. With Robert Muldoon and Peter Gordon he was one of the three Young Turks of the National Party who entered Parliament in 1960.
In 1961 he was one of ten National MPs to