Cadet Norman Mawle of the
Inns of Court Officers' Training Corps was commissioned as a
second lieutenant on 5 September 1916. He was seconded as a
flying officer to the
Royal Flying Corps on 27 December 1917. He was attached to
No. 5 Squadron RFC for five weeks. Mawle was promoted to
lieutenant on 5 March 1918. On 22 May 1918, Mawle was assigned to
No. 84 Squadron RAF as a
Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5 pilot. His original assigned aircraft was substandard, and he would not have success until it was wrecked by another pilot, and replaced. Using SE.5 serial number D6917, he destroyed a German
observation balloon at
Proyart for his first victory, on 17 July 1918. Three days later, he
busted another balloon and destroyed a
Fokker D.VII. A broken connecting rod in the engine moved Mawle out of his customary plane into SE.5 serial number C1868; on 24 July, he used it to team with Captain
John Ralston to destroy a Fokker D.VII over
Warfusée. Once back in his familiar machine, he helped destroy an
LVG reconnaissance plane on 29 July 1918 for his fifth win. ==Between the wars==