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Billy Bishop
Air Marshal William Avery "Billy" Bishop VC, CB, DSO & Bar, MC, DFC, ED (8 February 1894 – 11 September 1956) was a Canadian flying ace and Victoria Cross recipient of the First World War. He was officially credited with 72 victories, making him the top Canadian ace of the war. During the Second World War, Bishop was instrumental in setting up and promoting the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.
==Early life==
Bishop was born in Owen Sound, Ontario.〔McCaffery 1988, p. 2.〕 He was the second of three children born to William A. and Margaret Bishop. His father, a lawyer and graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, was the Registrar of Grey County.〔McCaffery 1988, p. 3.〕 Attending Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute, Bishop earned the reputation of a fighter, defending himself and others easily against bullies.〔 He avoided team sports, preferring solitary pursuits such as swimming, horse riding, and shooting.〔Greenhous 2002, p. 29.〕 Bishop was less successful at his studies; he would abandon any subject he could not easily master, and was often absent from class.〔McCaffery 1988, p. 4.〕
At 15, Bishop had his first experience with aviation; he built an aircraft out of cardboard, wood crates and string, and "flew" off the roof of his three-story house. He was dug, unharmed, out of the wreckage by his sister.〔
In 1911,〔 Billy Bishop entered the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston, Ontario, where his brother Worth had graduated in 1903.〔Greenhous 2002, p. 30.〕 At RMC, Bishop was known as "Bish" and "Bill". Bishop failed his first year at RMC, having been caught cheating.〔Greenhous 2002, p. 31.〕
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