The first British pilot to be nationally acclaimed on account of his mounting score of air victories. Albert Ball had joined the Sherwood Foresters at the age of 18 in 1914. Transferred to No. 13 Squadron RFC in 1916, Ball flew BE.2c on artillery spotting before changing to Nieuports with No. 11 Squadron, and by the end of the year had shot down 10 enemy aircraft.
He then changed to the S.E.5 and before his death on 7 May 1917 had down a total of 44 German aircraft.
A loner, and an intensely religious young man, he was deadly stalker in the air, against the enemy. His death inaction remains a mystery to this day.
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