"Sergeant Mottershead (1892 - 1917) was the only Non-Commissioned Pilot to be awarded the Victoria Cross during the First World War. He won it for saving the life of his observer, W. E. Gower, by successfully landing his plane in Allied territory after it had caught fire as a result of enemy action. He died later from his burns, but his observer was saved." image: A half-length portrait of a young man in RFC uniform. He stands infront of a landscape of rolling green hills, and a sky thick with cloud.