Canada, CEF. A Signed Souvenir Article & Photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel William A. Bishop, V.C. consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 47 x 40mm

measuring 47 x 40mm

the peak pinned with an aluminum insignia in the form of a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika

with a crowned double-headed Imperial eagle bearing a shield of its breast

50 mm long pin

Canada, CEF. A Signed Souvenir Article & Photograph of Lieutenant-Colonel William A. Bishop, V.C. consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac measuring 47 x 40mmIllustrating a large photo of Lieutenant Colonel William A. Bishop above the text, inscribed "LT. COLONEL W. A. BISHOP, V. C., D. S. O., M. C., D. F. C. NECESSITY is the Mother of Invention, and at the beginning of this war the necessity for better aeroplanes was strongly felt, with the result that in four years of war they progressed to a higher degree of development then they would otherwise have done in ten years. They were undoubtedly a tremendous