The Elk Mountain pilot. [volume] (Irwin, (Ruby Camp), Gunnison County, Colo.) 1880-19??, 1919-05-08

Medal. forty-three the Royal Red Cross, first
class. and one hundred and forty-nine the Royal
! Red Cross. second class.
Canada built $500 airplancs for the royal air
force and was building bombing planes for the
United States when the armstice was signed.
About 1aQOO men were enlisted In rho royal air
force from Canada. and three CanadiaA air 1ght-
ers won the Victoria Cross The bes. known Of
the trio Is Lieut. Col. William A. BiSkOp Of To
ronto who was cavalryman In the N,ississauga
Horse and went overseas with the horses but got
transferred to the flying corps. Bishop is Off
cially credited with seventy-twO and unoffcially
credited with hundred and ten enemy air
planes. and is called the worlds greatest living
ace. King George sent for him and awarded him
the Victoria Cross the Distinguished Service Order
and the Military Cross.
Next In reputation is Maj. W. G. Barker, " c..
D. S. o., NJ. &, royal air force fighter from
Manitoba. He was given the Victoria Cross, Dis
tingushed Service Order. with bar, and the Mill
tary Cross. with two bars. His grand total Is
fifty enemy machines.
According to Colonel Bishop, the Quickest air
fight OF the that of Lieut. Alan Arnett
Mcleod, v. c.. royal air force pilot from Stone
wall, Manitoba. This eighteen-yearsod boy. at
tackled by eight enemy airplanes shot down three
of them. He wounded five times, and then his
machine caught fire. Climbing out on the left bot
tom plane he controlled his falling arplane from
the side of the fuselage, landed. In No Mans
Land, rescued his wounded observer from the
blazing aircraft and was again wounded by an
enemy bomb. Shortly after his return to Canada
Mcleod died of pneumonia in Winnipeg.
The first Canadian to win the v. c. was heroic
surgeon. Capt Francis A. c. Scrimger, Of the
Canadian army medical service.
Color Sergeant Frederick W. Hail. Eighth bat
talon. heard n call for help In No Mans Land.
In the face Of a very heavy enfade fire Hall made
two attempts at rescue. AS he lifting the
wounded man Hall was wounded MORALLY by bull
let through the head. He paid for the coveted " c.
with his life SO did Lance Corporal Frederick
Fisher, Thirteenth battalion.
At Givenchy. June 49, 1915. Lieut.. Frederick
W. Campbell, First Canadian battalion, went over
the top with two machine guns, arrived at the
German first line with one gun and maintained
his position there under very heavy fire, though
every man in his detachment had been killed
wounded. Later he stopped an enemy attack by
advancing his gun still farther and firing 1000
rounds from an exposed position He was wound
humously awarded him.
Private Leo Clarke, " c., Twenty-seventh bat
TALON: Private John Chapman Kerr, v. c., Sixty
.flfth battalion; Capt. THAN w. Mcdowell. v. @.
and d. s. c. Thirty-eighth battalion; Lieut.. Fred
erick NJ W. Harvey v. c., Thirteenth battalion
all these men performed prodigfes Of valor In KILL
ing foes capturing prisoners enemy trenches and
,,os,ttons and machine guns They earned their
Victoria Crossss.
serg+ Ellis W. Sifton, v. c., charged machine
.rp alone killing all the crew and stopped coun-
ter.attack until REINFORCED; he was killed So
v.s private William J. Milne. " c. Forty-sixth