Lieutenant John Geoffrey Sadler Candy MC (19 February 1897 – 11 May 1955) was a World War I flying ace credited with six aerial victories. He served in the Royal Air Force through 1946. Candy was assigned to 19 Squadron to fly a SPAD. He began his scoring streak on 26 August 1917; in cooperation with Alexander Pentland and three other pilots, he destroyed a DFW reconnaissance airplane over Moorseele. On 30 September, he once again had help in driving down a German two-seater down out of control; on that occasion, he had help from Richard Alexander Hewat, Frederick Sowrey, and two other pilots. On 9 October, he teamed with Sowrey and Hewat to drive down an Albatros recon plane. After another shared win on 11 November 1917, two days later, he cooperated with Albert Desbrisay Carter in the de
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