Captain William Billy Bishop by Ivan Berryman. SIG609 Portsmouth Royal Naval dockyard during

Portsmouth Royal Naval dockyard during the Napoleonic Era with royal naval Men of War and Frigates in Portsmouth Harbour

the mighty Nelson gently nudges into position

Scots Man-O-War 1511 by Charles Dixon

This position held as many as 16 battalions and 14 heavy guns

Signed by Tony Adams

Captain William Billy Bishop by Ivan Berryman. SIG609 Portsmouth Royal Naval dockyard duringDHM1608. Captain William Billy Bishop by Ivan Berryman. Undoubtedly one of the truly great Aces of the First World War, William Billy Bishop became celebrated for his technique of actively seeking out the enemy and bringing the fight to him, rather than the more usual practice of patrolling in search of enemy activity. An example of this was his single handed attack on a German airfield in June 1917 when he destroyed not only a number of aircraft on