BMD-Certificates.co.uk Celebrates the Birthday of Albert Ball With Their Birth Certificate
BMD-Certificates (www.BMD-Certificates.co.uk), a Website which offers a specialized service to search for and supply copy certified and official U.K. birth certificates, marriage certificates, and death certificates, celebrates the birthday of Albert Ball, the latest in a series commemorating important figures born in the UK, by making their birth certificate available as part of their services.
(PRWEB) August 14, 2005 -- BMD-Certificates (www.BMD-Certificates.co.uk), a website which offers a specialized service to search for and supply copy certified and official U.K. birth certificates, marriage certificates, and death certificates, celebrates the birthday of Albert Ball by making their birth certificate available as part of their services, which can be purchased by visiting http://www.bmd-certificates.co.uk/albert_ball.html
This birth certificate is one of a ongoing series commemorating some of the great people who have been born in the UK and gone on to world prominence in their field, and offers an unique glimpse into their life, and are the perfect item for collectors, fans, historians and researchers alike.
All certificates are full and official birth certificates acquired from the relevant General Register Office in the United Kingdom where the birth was originally registered.
Albert Ball, VC, DSO & 2 Bars, MC (August 14, 1896 - May 7, 1917) was an English WWI fighter pilot and recipient of the Victoria Cross.
Born in Nottingham, Ball joined the 7th (Robin Hood) Battalion, The Sherwood Foresters (The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment) at the start of the First World War. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1915 after learning to fly privately. He was awarded his wings on January 26, 1916 and was sent to France three weeks later.
He was awarded his first decoration, the Military Cross, on June 27, 1916. By October Ball had become the first person in the British Army to have a DSO and two bars.
Ball's aircraft was easy to recognize as he always had the tips of the propeller painted red.
He was 20 years old, and a Temporary Captain when the following deeds took place for which he was awarded the VC.
From April 26 to May 6, 1917 flying over France, Captain Ball took part in 26 combats in the course of which he destroyed 11 hostile aircraft, brought down two out of control and forced several others to land. Flying alone, on one occasion he fought six hostile machines, twice he fought five and once four. When leading two other British planes he attacked an enemy formation of eight - on each of these occasions he brought down at least one enemy plane, and several times his plane was badly damaged. On returning with a damaged plane he had always to be restrained from immediately going out in another.
On the evening of May 7, near Douai, eleven British aircraft from the "elite" No. 56 Squadron RFC, including Albert Ball, encountered German fighters from Jasta 11. In a running battle fought in deteriorating visibility, the aircraft became scattered and Lothar von Richthofen was engaged in a one-on-one dog fight with Ball, which ended with both aircraft crashing behind German lines. Ball was killed but Lothar survived and was credited by the Germans with the victory, though it was likely Ball became disoriented and lost control.
His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Sherwood Foresters Museum (The Castle, Nottingham, England).
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