James Henry Forman was born in Kirkfield, Ontario, Canada on 1 February 1896. When he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force

Canadian Expeditionary Force

The Canadian Expeditionary Force was the designation of the field force created by Canada for service overseas in the First World War. Units of the C.E.F. were divided into field formation in France, where they were organized first into separate divisions and later joined together into a single...

 on 29 June 1916, he gave his profession as minister and listed his mother Mary as his next of kin. He had three months prior military experience. He was six feet tall, with medium complexion, gray eyes, and black hair. A scar on his right foot served as a distinguishing mark. He was assigned Regimental Number 490828 and posted to the 3rd Training Brigade of the Canadian Expeditionary Force.

World War I aerial service

Forman transferred into the Royal Naval Air Service

Royal Naval Air Service

The Royal Naval Air Service or RNAS was the air arm of the Royal Navy until near the end of the First World War, when it merged with the British Army's Royal Flying Corps to form a new service , the Royal Air Force...

 and underwent pilot's training. His initial assignment was to 6 Naval Squadron, where he scored his first aerial victory on 27 July 1917. He was wounded in action the following day, then transferred into 1 Naval Squadron and remained with it during its transition into 201 Squadron Royal Air Force, scoring seven wins along the way. On 21 May 1918 Lieutenant J. H. Forman promoted to temporary captain.

On 2 July 1918, Forman was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by his king. On 7 August 1918, the DFC was officially gazetted:
Forman was reassigned to 70 Squadron as a Flight Commander. He scored one victory while leading a flight for his new unit. Then, on 4 September 1918, Forman was flying one of a dozen Sopwith Camels that engaged German fliers from Jagdgruppe III. The German opponents included aces Bruno Loerzer

Bruno Loerzer

Bruno Loerzer was an officer in the German Luftstreitkräfte during World War I and Luftwaffe during World War II....

 and Otto Fruhner

Otto Fruhner

Leutnant Otto Fruhner was a German World War I fighter pilot credited with 27 victories. He was one of the first aviators to parachute from a stricken aircraft.-Early service:...

. Forman was one of eight pilots downed by the Germans in the largest single loss of Camels during the war.

List of aerial victories

No.	Date/time	Aircraft	Foe	Result	Location	Notes
1	27 July 1917 @ 1710 hours	Sopwith Camel Sopwith Camel The Sopwith Camel was a British First World War single-seat biplane fighter introduced on the Western Front in 1917. Manufactured by Sopwith Aviation Company, it had a short-coupled fuselage, heavy, powerful rotary engine, and concentrated fire from twin synchronized machine guns. Though difficult...  serial number N6358	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	Northeast of Nieuwpoort, Belgium Nieuwpoort, Belgium Nieuwpoort is a municipality located in Flanders, one of the three regions of Belgium, and in the Flemish province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Nieuwpoort proper and the towns of Ramskapelle and Sint-Joris. On January 1, 2008 Nieuwpoort had a total population of 11,062....
2	18 October 1917 @ 1030 hours	Sopwith Triplane Sopwith Triplane The Sopwith Triplane was a British single seat fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by the Sopwith Aviation Company during the First World War. Pilots nicknamed it the Tripehound or simply the Tripe. The Triplane became operational with the Royal Naval Air Service in early 1917 and was...  s/n N5479	DFW DFW DFW may refer to:*Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport*Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, a metropolitan area in north Texas*Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources*Division of Fisheries and Wildlife...  reconnaissance plane	Driven down out of control	East of Poelcappelle	Victory shared with Samuel Kinkead Samuel Kinkead Samuel Marcus Kinkead DSO, DSC & Bar, DFC & Bar was a South African fighter ace Captain with 33 victories during World War I. He went on to serve in southern Russia and the Middle East postwar.-Early life:...
3	12 November 1917 @ 1545 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n B5651	Pfalz D.III Pfalz D.III |-See also:-Bibliography:* Gray, Peter and Owen Thetford. German Aircraft of the First World War. London: Putnam, 1962. ISBN 0-93385-271-1.* Grosz, Peter M. Pfalz D.IIIa . Berkhamsted, Herts, UK: Albatros Publications, 1995. ISBN 0-94841-425-1.* Guttman, Jon. Balloon-Busting Aces of World War 1 ...	Set afire; destroyed	Dixmude	Victory shared with Samuel Kinkead
4	29 November 1917 @ 1415 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n B6409	Albatros D.V	Driven down out of control	Middelkerke Middelkerke Middelkerke is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders, on the North Sea, west of Ostend. The municipality comprises the towns of Leffinge, Lombardsijde, Mannekensvere, Middelkerke proper, Schore, Sint-Pieters-Kapelle, Slijpe, Westende and Wilskerke. On January 1, 2006...
5	12 April 1918 @ 1500 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n B7280	Fokker Triplane Fokker Dr.I The Fokker Dr.I Dreidecker was a World War I fighter aircraft built by Fokker-Flugzeugwerke. The Dr.I saw widespread service in the spring of 1918...	Driven down out of control	Southeast of Albert
6	9 May 1918 @ 1315 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n B7280	Albatros D.V	Driven down out of control	Bapaume Bapaume Bapaume is a commune and the seat of a canton in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.-Geography:A farming and light industrial town located 10 miles south of Arras at the junction of the A1 autoroute and the N17 and N30 national roads its location is...
7	15 May 1918 @ 0645 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n D3393	Albatros D.V	Destroyed	Bapaume	Victory shared with Charles Dawson Booker Charles Dawson Booker Major Charles Dawson Booker DSC was a World War I fighter ace credited with 29 victories. He was promoted to high rank while relatively young as a result of his gallantry and unswerving dedication to his country.-Early life:Charles Dawson Booker was born to Joseph Dawson and Rachel C... , Samuel Kinkead, Robert McLaughlin Robert McLaughlin (aviator) Lieutenant Robert McLaughlin was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories.McLaughlin destroyed two Albatros D.Vs and chased another down out of control during May 1918; he cooperated in one of the destructions with fellow aces Hazel LeRoy Wallace, Reginald Brading, James Henry... , Hazel Wallace Hazel Wallace Captain Hazel LeRoy Wallace DFC was a Canadian First World War flying ace, officially credited with 14 victories. His record shows him to have been a notable team player in squadron tactics.... , Reginald Brading Reginald Brading Captain Reginald Carey Brenton Brading was a World War I flying ace credited with thirteen confirmed aerial victories.... , Maxwell Findlay Maxwell Findlay Captain Maxwell Hutcheon Findlay DSC, DFC was a World War I flying ace credited with 14 aerial victories. He remained in the RAF postwar for a couple of years before going on to a civilian aviation career that ended with his death in the Johannesburg Air Race of 1936.-World War I:Findlay was a... , two other pilots
8	16 May 1918 @ 1920 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n D3392	Fokker Triplane	Set afire; destroyed	South of Albert
9	10 August 1918 @ 2045 hours	Sopwith Camel s/n E1472	LVG LVG Luftverkehrsgesellschaft m.b.H. was a German aircraft manufacturer based in Berlin-Johannisthal, which began constructing aircraft in 1912, building Farman-type aircraft. The company constructed many reconnaissance and light bomber biplanes during World War I.The raid on London in 1916 was...  reconnaissance plane	Driven down out of control	La Creche La Crèche La Crèche is a commune in the Deux-Sèvres department in the Poitou-Charentes region in western France.-References:*... -Bailleul Bailleul - France :*Bailleul, Nord, in the Nord département*Bailleul, Orne, in the Orne département*Bailleul, Somme, in the Somme département*Bailleul-aux-Cornailles, in the Pas-de-Calais département*Bailleul-la-Vallée, in the Eure département...

Post World War I

Forman survived the war. Nothing more is known of him except that he died in Santa Barbara, California, USA on 4 October 1972.