Thanks. I’ve just read through this. Unfortunately, it is the usual Bishop or Greenhous is the villain debate.
http://www.billybishop.net/bishop1.html has Bishop going to Canada ‘to report on progress’ in October, and being on the boat back to Britain when the Armistice is declared. Wise’s ‘Canadian Airmen and the First World War’ notes that Bishop resigned his post before going to Canada.
Bishop’s service records – available on line at http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca – note that Bishop when to Canada on ‘a special mission’. This was soon concluded and he went on leave, leaving the nascent Canadian Air Force without an officer until McKeever was posted in to 81 Squadron on 26.11.1918.
All seems a bit odd – I do wonder if Bishop was sacked ?