1st Lt Louis Bennett, Jr., an American in the service of the British during WWI, had a brilliant 9-day career in which he shot down 9 German balloons and 3 planes in 25 sorties. After downing his last two, enemy ground fire caused his aircraft to crash in flames. He was dragged from the wreckage but died that same day from his wounds. The Germans buried him with honors in their cemetery. To celebrate the first year of his death his mother built a temporary church in town to replace the one the Germans destroyed, and later a monument was erected in front of the church the Germans bombed during WWII. Nowadays his memorial is a simple plaque. He received no medals for his actions in combat.