Sorry if I sounded a little sour about Nottingham's civic dignatries but why is it the French honour a foreigner and we cannot be bothered to remember one of our own? Any way,
Albert Ball was one of the very few men to be made a Freeman of the City by the council and his father was Lord Mayor twice! Why couldn't the present Lord Mayor simply honour a forebear?
Our WW2 record isn't that great, at least in the early years. We were only saved by the English Channel and the Royal Navy; just what could Spitfires have done to damage a German invasion fleet? The French were poor in 1940 but we can hardly claim to be much better!
Vive La France!!
Jim