Public history posters on Canada’s military past, William  Billy  Avery Bishop a Canadian fighter pilot in WWI, by students Derek Musa, Lisa Marie Lam, Romario Parkeshttps://source.sheridancollege.ca/swfhass_military_posters/1001/thumbnail.jp

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Sheridan CollegeSOURCE: Sheridan Scholarly Output Undergraduate ResearchCreative ExcellenceCanadian Military History Research Posters Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences (FHASS)11-2016William Avery BishopDerek MusaLisa Marie LamRomario ParkesFollow this and additional works at: http://source.sheridancollege.ca/swfhass_military_postersPart of the Canadian History Commons, Military History Commons, and the Public HistoryCommonsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.This Student Work is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences (FHASS) at SOURCE: SheridanScholarly Output Undergraduate Research Creative Excellence. It has been accepted for inclusion in Canadian Military History Research Posters by anauthorized administrator of SOURCE: Sheridan Scholarly Output Undergraduate Research Creative Excellence. For more information, please contactsource@sheridancollege.ca.SOURCE CitationMusa, Derek; Lam, Lisa Marie; and Parkes, Romario, "William Avery Bishop" (2016). Canadian Military History Research Posters. Book2.http://source.sheridancollege.ca/swfhass_military_posters/28 February 1894: Born in in Owen Sound, Ontario11 September 1956” Died in Palm Beach, FloridaFall 1911: Entered the Royal Military CollegeAugust 1914: Lieutenant Bishop joins the Mississauga Horse Regiment to fight in WWI2 June 1917: Awarded the Victoria Cross – Canada’s highest award for military valour – for destroying several German planes during a solo missionWilliam Avery Bishop October 1917: Married sweetheart, Margaret Burden1939-1945: Promoted to Air Marshall at the outbreak of WWII, Bishop was in charge of recruitment for the RCAF“Better to die voluntarily crashing than to have the enemy send you down in flames”-- William ‘Billy’ Avery BishopA Canadian fighter pilot and ace credited with destroying  72 enemy aircraft  during the First World War

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