5925188 The grave of Captain Albert Ball VC, DSO, MC, 1917 (lantern slide) by Unknown photographer, (20th century); National Army Museum, London; (add.info.: The grave of Captain Albert Ball VC, DSO, MC, 1917. Lantern slide, World War One, Air Operations (1914-1918), 1917. Albert Ball (1896-1917) was one of the Royal Flying Corps? greatest fighter aces of the war. Credited with 44 victories and awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross (VC), Ball was killed when his SE5 aircraft crashed after he had been engaging Baron von Richthofen\'s squadron near Lens on 7 May 1917. The Germans buried him with full military honours at Annoeullin Cemetery. From a box of 80 lantern slides.); by National Army Museum ; out of copyright.