The grave of Captain Albert Ball VC, DSO, MC, 1917
Lantern slide, World War One, Air Operations (1914-1918), 1917.
Albert Ball (1896-1917) was one of the Royal Flying Corps' greatest fighter aces of the war. Credited with 44 victories and awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross (VC), Ball was killed when his SE5 aircraft crashed after he had been engaging Baron von Richthofen's squadron near Lens on 7 May 1917. The Germans buried him with full military honours at Annoeullin Cemetery.
From a box of 80 lantern slides.
NAM Accession Number
NAM. 1978-11-157-4-56
Copyright/Ownership
National Army Museum, Out of Copyright
Location
National Army Museum, Study collection
Object URL
https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1978-11-157-4-56
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