CAPTAIN BALL V.C. The Career of Flight Commander Ball V.C., D.S.O. (2 Bars). This item is unavailable.CAPTAIN BALL V.C. The Career of Flight Commander Ball V.C., D.S.O. (2 Bars)

CAPTAIN BALL V.C. The career of Flight Commander Ball V.C. D.S.O. (2 Bars) Walter A. Briscoe and H. Russell Stannard. Herbert Jenkins Ltd., London. 1918 Third Edition. 320pp plus plates Illustrated Hardback. This copy is bound in publisher's original red cloth covered boards with black titling and borders to the spine, which is sunned, and the upper board. There is a small neat signature to the f.e.p. dated January 1919 , a dust wrapper is not present. The text block is bright, white, tight and square. Published within a year of the death of Flight commander Ball this illustrated biography has a foreword from David Lloyd George and appreciations by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Major General Sir Hugh Trenchard , Chief of the Air Staff and Brigadier General J.F.A. Higgins probably three of the most important people at the end of the war. Albert Ball, VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC (14 August 1896 – 7 May 1917) was an English fighter pilot during the First World War. At the time of his death he was the United Kingdom's leading flying ace, with 44 victories, and remained its fourth-highest scorer behind Edward Mannock, James McCudden, and George McElroy. Raised in Nottingham, Ball joined the Sherwood Foresters at the outbreak of the First World War and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in October 1914. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) the following year, and gained his pilot's wings on 26 January 1916. Joining No. 13 Squadron RFC in France, he flew reconnaissance missions before being posted in May to No. 11 Squadron, a fighter unit. From then until his return to England on leave in October, he accrued many aerial victories, earning three Distinguished Service Orders and the Military Cross. He was the first ace to become a British popular hero. Ref A4 6.…