Captain Billy Bishop VC, Royal Flying Corps, in his Nieuport 17 fighter, August 1917

Photograph, World War One, Air Operations (1914-1918), 1917.

William Avery Bishop (1894-1956), known as 'Billy', was a Canadian fighter pilot. During the war he became one of the top scoring Commonwealth aces and was credited with 72 victories. Shortly before this photograph was taken Bishop had been awarded the Victoria Cross for his solo attack on four German aircraft on 2 June 1917.

From an album of 54 photographs that belonged to Mr Herbert Cawthorne who served with a Canadian Regiment.