A special ceremony will take place today at Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin, to honour a Victoria Cross winner who pioneered aerial warfare tactics, shooting down 61 enemy planes — making him the fifth most deadly pilot of the First World War.

I am researching the family background of Edward ‘Mick’ Mannock, the greatest British air ace of World War 1.

Andrew Melsom on a collection remembering Irish soldiers’ often heroic roles in World War I