His younger sister, Louie, encouraged William to do better at what ever he did. The two were very close friends as well. Sometimes William would pay his sister money so he could take her friends out on dates. This is how he met his future wife Margaret Burden.

In 1911, when William was age 17, his parents sent him away to Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. He was not very well educated and found the entrance exam to be hard, despite the aid of a tutor.

William failed his first year and was allowed back, but only if he would stay for an extra year. At the end of his second year he passed with good marks. In the third year he was caught using a cheat sheet on his final exam. Expulsion was delayed until the end of the summer, but the

Bishop had his first real air to air fight on March 25,1917. The German plane faked a death dive, but william stayed on him and shot the plane down. Bishop was soon one of the top aces in World War I. He downed 70 planes.

Due to his excellence on a horse and his military education, he was soon commissioned to the Mississauga Horse’s of Toronto, a cavalry of the 2nd Canadian Division.

One day in July, 1915, a biplane landed briefly for the pilot to get his bearing in a nearby field and Bishop found out the War Office could arrange transfers to the R.F.C. (Royal Flying Corps). Soon After Bishop had to be hospitalized, again, due to pneumonia.

When WWII broke out, William was approached by the Canadian government to go to war as an air marshal. This meant he was in charge of recruitment. After WWII ended, Bishop went into semi-retirement. He remained in retirement until the Korean War started. William put in an application to go to the Korean war, but it was rejected.

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