World War I

O'Grady served in 23 Squadron as a Spad pilot. He scored his first aerial victory on 30 April 1917, and accumulated nine wins by the end of August. He was transferred off combat duty to Home Establishment in September 1917. He won a Military Cross for his deeds circa 1 October 1917; it was gazetted 9 January 1918:

2nd Lt. Conn Standish O'Grady, R.F.C., Spec. Res.

List of aerial victories

No.	Date/time	Aircraft	Foe	Result	Location	Notes
1	30 April 1917 @ 1640 hours	Spad Société Pour L'Aviation et ses Dérivés SPAD was a French aircraft manufacturer between 1911 and 1921. Its SPAD S.XIII biplane was the most popular French fighter airplane in World War I.-Deperdussin:...  serial number A262	Albatros D.III Albatros D.III The Albatros D.III was a biplane fighter aircraft used by the Imperial German Army Air Service and the Austro-Hungarian Air Service during World War I. The D.III was flown by many top German aces, including Manfred von Richthofen, Ernst Udet, Erich Löwenhardt, Kurt Wolff, and Karl Emil Schäfer...	Driven down out of control	Inchy-en-Artois Inchy-en-Artois Inchy-en-Artois is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.-Geography:Inchy-en-Artois is a farming village situated southeast of Arras, at the junction of the D19 and the D22 roads.-Population:...
2	13 May 1917 @ 1900 hours	Spad	Albatros D.III	Set afire; destroyed	Vitry Vitry Vitry is part of the name of several communes in France:* Vitry-aux-Loges, in the Loiret département* Vitry-en-Artois, in the Pas-de-Calais département* Vitry-en-Charollais, in the Saône-et-Loire département...	Victory shared with Douglas McGregor Douglas McGregor (aviator) Captain Douglas Urquhart McGregor was a Canadian World War I flying ace credited with 12 official aerial victories.-Early life:Douglas Urquhart McGregor was the son of Doctor John O. McGregor. The younger McGregor attended McGill University and played on their Redmen football team during the early...
3	24 June 1917 @ 1610 hours	Spad s/n B3464	Albatros D.III	Set afire; destroyed	Saint-Jean Saint-Jean Saint-Jean is the name or part of the name of several places and of people:- In Canada :*Lac Saint-Jean*Lac-Saint-Jean-Est County Regional Municipality, Quebec*L'Anse-Saint-Jean, Quebec...	Victory shared with William John Charles Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick William John Charles Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick Major William John Charles Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick DSO, MC & Bar was a World War I flying ace credited with 21 aerial victories. He was the leading ace flying the Spad VII fighter, and of No. 23 Squadron... , George Ivan Douglas Marks
4	12 August 1917 @ 0620 hours	Spad B3556	Albatros D.III	Destroyed	Gheluvelt	Victory shared with Clive W. Warman Clive W. Warman Captain Clive Wilson Warman was a World War I flying ace credited with twelve aerial victories. He was the sole American winner of the British Distinguished Service Order.-World War I:...
5	14 August 1917 @ 1905 hours	Spad B3556	Albatros D.III	Destroyed	East of Saint-Julien Saint-Julien -Belgium:*Saint Julien Memorial, a memorial to the Canadian Corps participation in the early phases in the Second Battle of Ypres of the Great War-France:*Saint-Julien, Côte-d'Or, in the Côte-d'Or department...
6	14 August 1917 @ 1915 hours	Spad B3556	Reconnaissance plane	Destroyed	East of St.-Julien	Victory shared with three other pilots
7	20 August 1917 @ 1945 hours	Spad B3556	Albatros D.V Albatros D.V |-See also:-Bibliography:*Bennett, Leon. Gunning for the Red Baron. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. ISBN 1-58544-507-X....	Set afire; destroyed	Poelcappelle
8	26 August 1917 @ 0650 hours	Spad B3556	Albatros D.V	Driven down out of control	North of Passchendaele
9	26 August 1917 @ 0700 hours	Spad B3556	Albatros D.V	Driven down out of control	North of Comines Comines Comines is a commune of the Nord department in northern France.-Geography:The town of Comines is located at the Franco-Belgian border, and is split into two parts: Comines and Comines , part of the municipality of Comines-Warneton....

Post World War I

O'Grady survived the war. He became a professor during the 1930s. He was an active glider pilot as late as the 1950s, belonging to the Newcastle

Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Gliding Club. He died during the 1970s.

Reference

• Guttman, Jon. Spad VII Aces of World War I: Volume 39 of Aircraft of the Aces. Osprey Publishing, 2001. ISBN 1841762229, 9781841762227.
• Shores, Christopher; Franks, Norman
  Norman Franks
  Norman Leslie Robert Franks is an English writer who specialises in aviation books on the pilots and squadrons of World Wars I and II.-Biography:...
  
  ; Guest, Russell. Above the Trenches: A Complete Record of the Fighter Aces and Units of the British Empire Air Forces 1915-1920. Grub Street, 1990. ISBN 0948817194, 9780948817199.

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