5001 Sopwith Pup N 5182, Royal Naval Air Service, 8th Naval Squadron, Captain Robert Alexander "Rikki" Little. Little was nicknamed Rikki by his squadron mates after the cobra killing mongoose Rikki-Tikki-Tavi  in Rudyard Kipling stories. Australian Bob Little shot down 47 enemy aircraft, becoming Australia’s highest scoring ace. As an aviator he was ordinary at best, enduring a number of crash-landings. What gave him his edge as a fighter pilot was his keen eye, excellent marksmanship, and willingness to single-handedly take on entire enemy formations and close in on his prey—down to twenty-five yards on occasion—before opening fire. Captain Little was flying this a/c when he scored his first three air victories over France in November and December of 1916. On May 27,1918, a moonlit evening, Little flew alone from Ezil le Hamel attempting to destroy a Gotha bomber near Noeux, Little was shot down and killed, at age 22, leaving Vera, his widow, and a son. He is buried in the Wavans British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France. 

“The duty of the fighter pilot is to patrol his area of the sky, and shoot down any enemy fighters in that area. Anything else is rubbish.”

— Baron Manfred von Richthofen, 1917. 

Richtofen would not let members of his Staffel strafe troops in the trenches.