Born on this day in 1896, Captain Albert Ball VC became Britain鈥檚 leading flying ace, credited with 44 victories.
Killed in France aged just 20, his courage earned the VC, DSO and Two Bars, and MC. We remember him.
#AlbertBall #LestWeForget
Veterans Month 馃嚞馃嚙
@MonthVeterans
The Veterans Charity introduce Veterans Month as a chance to celebrate, educate, honour, remember and respect the UK veteran community starting on March 4th.
- Born on this day in 1943: Sgt Michael Willetts GC, 3 PARA When a suitcase bomb was left inside Springfield Road Police Station in Belfast in 1971, he held open an escape door & then used his body to shield the adults & children behind him He was mortally wounded, aged just 27
- A company founded by @RoyalAirForce veteran Joseph Cyril Bamford & a record-breaking car driven by RAF veteran Wing Commander Andy Green OBE The JCB Hydromax has achieved a provisional hydrogen land-speed record of 406.320 mph British engineering at its finest馃嚞馃嚙 #JCB #Veterans
- Born #OnThisDay in 1907, Sir Basil Spence OM OBE RA served as a @BritishArmy camouflage officer, designed a fake oil terminal at Dover for the D-Day deception and landed in Normandy. He later designed Coventry Cathedral, New Zealand鈥檚 Beehive and Hyde Park Barracks. #Veterans
- Not one but two veterans born #OnThisDay in 1925: twins Ross and Norris McWhirter. Both served as RNVR sub-lieutenants Ross on a Mediterranean minesweeper; Norris on Atlantic escort duty and a Pacific minesweeper, before co-founding the Guinness Book of Records. #Veterans #RN
