Maddocks was the son of politician
Sir Henry Maddocks. After serving as a sergeant in the
Berkhamsted School Officers' Training Corps Maddocks was commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant for service in the
Royal Flying Corps on 5 August 1916, and was appointed a flying officer on 26 December. Maddocks was posted to
No. 54 Squadron RFC, flying the
Sopwith Pup single-seat fighter, and gained his first aerial victory on 12 August 1917, driving down an
Albatros D.V out of control. On 16 September he sent an
Albatros D.III down in flames east of Slype, and on the 25th did the same to another D.V north of
Middelkerke. He and Second Lieutenant S. J. Schooley destroyed a D.V north of
Diksmuide on 4 November. On 17 December, Maddocks was awarded the
Military Cross, which was
gazetted on 19 April 1918. His citation read: :Second Lieutenant Henry Hollindrake Maddocks, General List and Royal Flying Corps. ::"For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. Whilst attacking two hostile aeroplanes he saw an enemy machine attacking one of his patrol. He at once attacked the enemy machine, which was seen to crash. On one occasion during a fight between seven enemy machines and a patrol of our scouts, he engaged one of the enemy machines causing it to drop from 6,000 feet to 1,000 feet, where it caught fire and dived vertically down. On two other occasions he drove down an enemy machine after a short fight. He has done consistent and continual good work." No. 54 Squadron was then re-equipped with the
Sopwith Camel, in which early on 3 January 1918 he sent down in flames a
DFW C reconnaissance aircraft east of St. Quentin, and later the same day, two D.Vs over
Honnecourt. and left the Royal Air Force with the rank of captain, when transferred to the unemployed list on 28 May 1919. He was briefly restored to the active list for temporary duty in the Royal Air Force as a
flight lieutenant between 10 April and 5 June 1921, being then re-transferred to the unemployed list. His elder brother, Lt. John Anslow Maddocks, was killed in 1916. Post-war Maddocks turned to the law as a profession, becoming a
barrister, and being appointed
recorder of the Borough of
Burton-upon-Trent on 13 August 1938, and a member of the
Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce on 20 May 1952. ==References==