Show 1 t iS t fJ i t fr c 1 the Premier Airman of JJ The Hero of Single Combats With Hun Flyers and Destroyer of 70 German Planes Is an Looking Little LillIe Chap Who Seldom Gets ets Excited Even Wh Fighting Against 1 3 to 1 Odds at OO at Miles an Hour Feet Up in the Air B But t When Cupid Attacked Attached I Him Him Well Well That Was Different J c cL L J a I A i A c R err t t M w Y Y ih t t tS S 0 1 f Y z A I c F e 1 aC l r 1 T R AMO OLOM AL t i. i Dr William Bishop who won the Victoria Cross Distinguished Service Order td Id Military Medal all before his twenty-third twenty birthday and his Canadian bride ho was Miss Mis Margaret Burden of Toronto By y BORLAND H THOMAS P pid according to all the dope I is a winged god Also ho lio is known known to io stir sUr abroad without bow and arrows ready and hesitates to use them with or ora mt a ut t provocation Therefore Jae ite is the Uie forerunner and proof pro pro- US of all aU our later day aerial fight fight- lS nd as such sueh has lias a long and record ch ich is the reason I suppose for forever forever ever eTer declining combat with any lent tent lent whatsoever and what gave the nerve just ever eyer so little a ar r ago o to attack young Major Will IVill- Bishop of the tho British Army and lOyal Flying Corps and all that that that- I i which very Tery few ether ther flying ts have haTe been able to try and aud andray ray rap with Major Bishop has something of ot record ecord of his own A Abit bit it of ry ry of it came out bank back In when when New York had him for fort t for a few hours Here it tae n newspapers set it forth then i hundred undred and ten single combats un flyers in five months seven R-seven s seven ven German planes sent g to earth three ty-three other planes sent ender conditions s which made it bl Ip to know Certainly whether d th their lr occupants had been dew det de- de w ost t devil dare-devil single air feat of ofa a lone attack on a Boche Beebe air air- which ch he got three machines h rt la in three in-three three months of Mary talY c Britain had df t 10 W Hr m Cross Crossl Una Un- Un a Service Order and Military Medal Medal making making Bishop probably bly the I only living man who has them all and certainly the only living Jiving man who had won them all before hi his twenty-third twenty birthday Before such uch an aerial iven ven Dan Cupid redoubtable as he is might have been excused for hanging back a moment But Cupid did id not hang back 1 dare say he was deceived by Bishops Dishons personal appearance For if there ia is iaone iaone isone one thing Major William Bishop does not lot look like ike that thing is a hero Not only is he young but he looks younger than he Is Ho He is short in stature and so slender that he can barely stir a scale beam at a a. hundred pounds He Is unassuming too and bashful bashful so so bashful that when they gave him a dinner at the Canadian Club in New York and stood him up op in their midst to tell them about air- air fighting ghUng he blushed and stammered and could hardly make himself heard It was undoubtedly his personal apI ap- ap 1 I that made Cupid rate him as just lust one of the ordinary easy marks If It Cupid had attended that Canadian Club dinner it might have been another another an an- other ether matter in spite of all the blushing blushing blush blush- ing and the stammered words For Forat Forat Forat at that dinner some few facts came out ut about the Bishop Dishop boy that have given any opponent pause The guests learned how how y Bishop went to Europe from his Noman homan home Noma n Owen Sauna Souna a a. little Ontario town whore hi Ills his father is county registrar in the tho spring ef of t 1915 as a cavalry private But the cavalry was waa waiting for the end of trench warfare and the coming to open righting fighting to gire give them a chance at at tho the Huns Buns Bishop didn't want to wait walt so ao o he transferred to i the thoL Flying Corps and got a place as observer in the spring of 1916 Ho He was shot shot- down injured He recuperated and finally succeeded in qualifying as as a pilot He lie reached the tho front last February and though he be had attracted little attention attention attention atten atten- tion from his hl officers up to toen then en things soon began to happen Within five days das his first enemy plane was brought down under circumstances that were enough to win the Military Cross though officialdom never divulged the details That did not worry who stuck strictly to business and by Easter had piled plIed up such a score that he ho was made a captain captain captain cap cap- tain and a a. flight commander He celebrated d his promotion by bYthe the convivial feat of attacking attacking attacking attack attack- ing three German planes sin sin- h gle-h gle Four others came cameto cameto cameto to rescue them Bishop got two and then as the shooting had been lively and he had run j I I out of ammunition he winged his way horns home again uninjured i I Britain gave him the Distinguished Distinguished Distinguished Distin Distin- Service Order to celebrate celebrate celebrate cele cele- brate his celebration with One other decoration was left for him to win the hig cst and rarest of them all the all the v ictoria Cross which all men covet cove On June 2 last he went out and got that that before before breakfast The official record gives as asgood asgood asgood good an account as any of the circumstances Capt Bishop flew first to any enemy airdrome Finding no enemy machine about he flew airdrome about three miles distant and about twelve miles within th the enemy lines Seven machines some sam with their engines running were on the ground He attacked these from a height of fifty feet killing killIng kill kill- Ing ng one of the mechanics One of the machines got off the round ground but Capt B Bishop at a height of at sixty feet fired fifteen rounds into it at close range Result officially left to the imagination Into a second he ne fired thirty rounds at a hundred and fifty yards It fell into a tree Two Iwo more machines rose from the airdrome airdrome air air- drome one of which he engaged at a height of 1000 feet sending it crashing crashing- to the ground He lie then emptied a whole drum of cartridges into the fourth machine and flew back to the station Four hostile scOUtS were 1000 feet above him for a mile mUe during his bis return return return re re- re- re turn journey but they would not at at- I tack His machine gun was badly about by h hostile machine gun gunfire gunfire gunfire fire from the ground Total casualties tw casualties tw planes crashed two wo whose fates are aro not mentioned and the mechanic 1 billed L all with a total expenditure of two ninety-two cartridges cartridges cartridges cart cart- ridges of the sort which can be bought according to Liberty Loan Committee estimates at a rate r of If f a thousand for fora forn a n fifty-dollar fifty bond Bishop evidently shoots as straight and hard as he flies fifes It would pay tho the Allies to get a few hundred replicas of him into commission commission commis commis- sion don at once Ail All that he accomplished under the stimulus of an early cup of coffee corree and for dt It they gave him th the V. V C. C a arater rather rater small man with a pointed beard and a crown pinning it on his thirty thirty- inch chest when ho was over in Blighty a little tle later on a a. brief fur fur- ough Such things recounted by the toastmaster toastmaster toast toast- master at that Canadian Club dinner In n New York at which Daniel Cupid evidently was not present made the guests eager elger io to hew hear more from the lips lip of the Bishop boy himself The They were not wholly Fright- Fright Major Bishop Bishop he he had won another another an an- other promotion by that hat time could time could not cot say cay much but what came out between the stammers was decidedly interesting nt He gave them Q a little shop hop talk They learned for instance that his faith falth in fn incendiary bullets was all but You want to bring the Hun down downin in flames if you can he said said That in the nicest way But I shot six incendiary in incendiary incendiary in- in bullets into ono one one fellows fellow's petrol patrol tank one day dap and the beastly thing wouldn't blow up They also learned that good shootIng shooting shooting shoot shoot- ing and plenty of it helps to turn the trick Jg 19 Dont trust to one bullet to kill a Hun Get him In the head if It you can or or at least in the upper tipper part of his body But get him good and plenty plenty- one ano ne bullet is never Dever sure to kill Get bunks of them into him especially int his head bead That does dt n. Bombing is interesting though duels duel are of course more entertaining But when you bomb to get results youve you've got to come down right into t tie tle e thick of the Archies Come down just close enough so that you wont won't be Upset by your own bomb Then youre you're almost sure to hit Air fighting Is getting higher Even 4 above two twenty-two thousand feet one cant can't be sure any more that he wont won't be attacked from above Of course you take along your your own oxygen in tanks when you go up like that But youre you're fairly warm if youre you're behind your engine Always try to to get one of the new models where your engine is in front The best st thing thIns about air work is the unpredictability of it all You never can tell what moment something n way may ay happen to stir your blood and set set your wits a test I was about 1000 feet up one day going through a cloud dmd bank without a thing on my mind but getting back six or seven miles behind the Hun lines Jines to see what was going on when I heard machine guns guns There were s three Huns coming straight for me from behind We all aU started firing at t about three hundred yards I gave one fellow all I had and he came cameTo To within about ten yards of me Then ho lie swerved and went by in flames I t turned on the second and he felland fell felt felland and landed only about a hundred yards f em cm the first one I was so excited Major Bishop ends apologetically in telling the story that tho the third machine machine machino ma ma- chine chino escaped Excited when Excited when when in perhaps te ten sec see Dads at feet he had only been through an unexpected attack two duels and two two victories while the four planes were travelling a quarter of a amile amile mile mlle at a hundred miles an ho hour r. r His nerves perves must have been in unreliable shape that day One other story of the Bishop boy A German flyer used an Incendiary bullet on his petrol tank It worked Two miles in air Bishops Bishop's plane plan flamed up and he began to fall Airmen do not like being burned to I death dath and Bishop loosened his straps strap and was on the point poin of jumping of But after he had fallen feet ot or r so h he decided to make a try for life and with his levers pulled the planes plane's nose nos up and straightened her out His Ilis engine engine engino en en- gine gino was stopped and she began to tJ taU tall dive A few more thousand feet that way Then he got her straightened straightened straightened straight straight- ened out but side slipped lIe He was just banking when she struck Ona Ono flaming wing hit first and broke the fall The loosened straps let him jump clear It was just behind the behind the British lines and Tommy Atkins rushing out gathered Bishop up and put out put lh the fire that made a torch of his c clothing othin And Bishop Dishop was not hurt From New York Major William Bishop went on to Toronto Canada where he had been appointed chief gunnery instructor in the Royal Flying Corps And It was then that Daniel Cupid unknowing or unheeding all ali hat bat hathas has been told you decided to take 1 a I flyer at England's England premier airman fond and brought on what might be called in many senses the seasons season's most aerial engagement which resulted resulted re re- E recently in Canadas Canada's most notable war wedding The lady in the case was Miss Margaret Margaret Margaret Mar Mar- garet Burden one of the prettiest members member of Toronto's Hill set and anda a niece of Sir John Eaton the Dominions Dominion's Dominions Dominion's Do Do- lJ minions minion's department store magnate And of the way the marriage was was arranged Majo Majo- Billy Bishop gave the Sunday Sunda Worlds World's Toronto representative rep rep- the following wing characteristic characteristic character character- The first evening after I came home last month me sat up till WI 2 o'clock before it was settled that wo we should be re married before I go gr overseas again in They were married in the l Methodist i t Church erected by the td to commemorate com com- com com- the founder of their r for for- r- r une and passed down the path under he the crossed sword blades of or the the Mississauga Mie- Mie Horse and the R. R F F. C C. while Red Cross nurses and children strewed flowers rs in their path Now they are spending their hone honeymoon touring the United States In Uncle Sir Johns John's private car Soon Major Bishop VC will be going overseas again to more moro adventures But Mrs Billy Bishop V. V C. C will go along this time So Daniel Cupid winged god and prototype i of all the fighting flyers e ems to have scored another victory Victorr |