Nottingham City Transport (NCT) has unveiled its 24th named bus – Albert Ball VC – 101 years to the day he died in action, during the First World War on 7 May 1917.
Born and raised in Nottingham, Albert joined the Sherwood Foresters at the outbreak of the First World War and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in October 1914. He was the first ace to become a British national hero and was killed in action aged 20.
He is the third member of the military to have a bus named in their honour by NCT.
