Captain Alan John Bott MC & Bar (14 January 1893 – 17 September 1952) was a World War I flying ace who was credited with five aerial victories.
[1][2] Bott worked as journalist before and just after the outbreak of the war, serving as "special correspondent" of the Daily Chronicle, based in Basel, Switzerland.
On 24 August 1916 Bott and Vaucour were shot up and forced to land by Leopold Reimann of Jasta 1, but went on to claim three Fokker E fighter aircraft in September.
111 Squadron RFC stationed in the Sinai Desert,[2] he was appointed a flight commander with the acting rank of captain on 22 December.
[2][14] Taken to Constantinople by train, Bott, accompanied by Captain Thomas W. White of the Australian Flying Corps, who had been captured in November 1915, escaped and travelled by ship to Odessa, Ukraine, then to Varna, Bulgaria, and overland to Salonika, Greece, arriving there just as the armistice was declared.
[17] Bott had written his first book An Airman's Outings, an account of the life of a British flying officer, while still serving in No.