Yury Gilsher

Ю. В. Гилшер
Born	(1894-11-27)27 November 1894 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	20 July 1917(1917-07-20) (aged 22) near Tarnopol, Russian Empire (now Ternopil, Ukraine)
Buried	Buchach, Ukraine
Allegiance	Russian Empire
Service/branch	Imperial Russian Army Imperial Russian Air Force
Years of service	c. 1914–1917
Rank	Cavalry Second Lieutenant
Unit	4th Army Air Detachment 7th Fighter Detachment
Commands held	7th Fighter Detachment
Awards	Order of St. George Order of St. Vladimir Golden Sword for Bravery Order of St. Anne

Cavalry Second Lieutenant Yury Vladimirovich Gilsher (Russian: Ю́рий Влади́мирович Ги́лшер) (27 November 1894 – 20 July 1917) was a Russian fighter ace of World War I. Initially a cavalryman, but then an airman, Gilsher overcame two serious injuries to become an ace. After suffering a fracture of both bones in his right forearm, he later lost a foot to amputation because of a crash. He returned to duty with a prosthetic foot. Gilsher rose to his unit's command and scored five victories between April and July 1917 before being killed in action on 20 July 1917.