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Billy Bishop. Air Marshal William Avery Bishop, VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED (8 February 1894 – 11 September 1956) was a Canadian flying ace of the First World War. He was officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian and British Empire ace of the war, and also received a Victoria Cross.
May 20, 2009 · Published Online May 20, 2009. Last Edited August 16, 2021. William Avery (Billy) Bishop Jr., VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED, First World War flying ace, author (born 8 February 1894 in Owen Sound, ON; died 11 September 1956 in Palm Beach, Florida).
Jun 12, 2006 · Major William Avery ‘Billy Bishop was in his element for what he knew would probably be the last time in World War I. The powerful roar of his SE-5a’s Wolseley Viper engine filled his ears. Damp wind buffeted his head and face over the short windscreen.
William Avery Bishop was a Canadian fighter ace who shot down 72 German aircraft during World War I. Bishop was educated at the Royal Military College, Kingston, and went overseas during World War I with the Canadian cavalry. In 1915 he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, joining the 60th.
Mar 17, 2017 · Billy Bishop - Early Life & Career: Born February 8, 1894 at Owen Sound, Ontario, William "Billy" Bishop was the second (of three) child of William A. and Margaret Bishop. Attending Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute as a youth, Bishop proved a marginal student though excelled in individual sports such as riding, shooting, and swimming.
In the Second World War, Billy Bishop helped bring world recognition to Canada's air force and the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan which became a model used by other countries. We honour Billy Bishop for his heroic service in the cause of freedom, and for his contributions to the orderly development of the aerial highways.
Billy Bishop had become an integral character/story in Canadian recruitment efforts. There began to be worry about what would happen to morale on the home front should something happen to him. He was moved and promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. By the time the war ended, he claimed 72 air victories. Some historians believe the total could be lower.
On June 2, 1917, Capt William Avery “Billy” Bishop took off from his home base with No. 60 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, near Arras in northern France, on a daring early morning mission that would win him the Victoria Cross.
William Avery (Billy) Bishop was born in Owen Sound, Ontario on February 8, 1894. He was twenty years old when the war broke out in 1914. He had gone into the Canadian Royal Military College three years earlier.
William Avery 'Billy' Bishop, V.C., C.B., D.S.O.*, M.C., D.F.C., E.D. was born on February 8, 1894, in Owen Sound, Ontario. He was educated there and at the Royal Military College at Kingston, Ontario, from where he enlisted in the 4th Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles in 1914.
