Captain Elwyn Roy (nicknamed "Bow") King, 4 Squadron Australian Flying Corps, was the highest scorer with the RAF's ultimate WWI scout, the Sopwith 7F.1 Snipe. The Snipe first went into action with 43 Squadron in September 1918. 4 Sqn AFC was the next unit to re-equip, trading in its Camels at the end of September and working up on Snipes during the first half of October. In late October the German forces were in full retreat and were heavily harassed by the allied air forces. In response, the Germans concentrated their scouts over army concentration points in an effort to give them some protection. This pitting of RAF Wings against German Geschwader led to some of the largest dogfights of the entire war. For experienced pilots like King, already with 19 victories flying Camels, such dogfights were golden, if dangerous, opportunities.

Victory No 1. On 28 October, King led 10 Snipes as top cover for 12 bomb-carrying SE.5s of 2 Sqn AFC, as the latter set out to attack German army units at Lessines, northeast of Tournai. Over Lessines, about seven Fokker DVIIs were spotted moving in at about 12,000 feet, and the Snipes sped to intercept. King zoomed and half-rolled on to the tail of the leading Fokker, and opened fire at very short range, estimated at 50 feet. The German immediately went into a dive with King following, still firing. After several thousand feet, the Fokker went out of control, falling out of sight. 4 AFC claimed the destruction of almost the entire German formation, Baker and Palliser each claiming two and McCloughry one.

Victory No 2. Next day, 15 Snipes of 4 Sqn AFC, led by Baker and King, carried out an offensive patrol to the Tournai area. East of Tournai, they met a large German formation, estimated at about 60 Fokker DVIIs. Both formations broke up and scattered, and several fights took place over the following minutes. King had to dive away from an attack by five Fokkers. Safely away from trouble he began to regain altitude, but on the way encountered an LVG 2-seater. He dived to attack, missed, but then destroyed the LVG on his second pass, firing head-on into its engine as he climbed.

Victory No 3 to5. For the third day in a row, 4 Sqn AFC headed towards Tournai, This time as part of an 80 Wing attack on the aerodrome at Rebaix, about 16 miles ENE of Tournai. King led 11 Snipes as escort for bomb-carrying SE.5's of 2 Sqn AFC and DH.9's of 103 Sqn RAF.

At 4,000 feet over Leuze, a "cloud" of Fokker DVIIs intervened and were met by the Snipes. King and another pilot attacked two Fokkers diving at a DH.9. King's fire crippled one Fokker and sent it tumbling down with King in pursuit. His observation of this enemy was abruptly cut short when, at only 1,000 feet, he was attacked on all sides by four Fokker DVIIs. He zoomed up through his attackers and pulled into a steep climbing turn that took him right across the nose of another Fokker which had been lurking above. Surprised, the pilot of the German plane pulled his nose up and stalled, the aircraft falling onto its back and straight into one of the lower Fokkers which had followed King. The two German aircraft disintegrated in the crash and King escaped in the confusion that followed.

Victory No 6 and 7. After several days of bad weather, on 4 November 80 Wing staged what would be one of the last big raids of the war. As on the 30th, 4 Sqn AFC's Snipes provided an escort for 2 Sqn AFC and 103 Sqn RAF as they carried out a bombing raid on an aerodrome, this time at Chapelle-à-Wattines, about 12 miles east of Tournai.

After a low altitude battle over the aerodrome (the Snipes stayed high and did not intervene - 2 Sqn AFC's SE.5s claimed five Fokkers with no loss to themselves), the formation started to head homewards. At this point, King, the patrol leader, spotted 12 Fokkers following the formation and led the Snipes back to engage. He dived at the German formation leader and fired 150 rounds. The German aircraft stalled then fell away in an inverted spin, out of control. He then spotted another Fokker on the tail of a Snipe and dashed to assist. After being hit by several bursts from a range of less than 100 feet, the Fokker burst into flames. The battle was not one-sided, however. Although King's victims were two of a total of four Fokker DVIIs claimed by 4 Sqn AFC, the Australians lost three of their own, including two aces, Baker and Palliser, who were both killed.

King's total of 26 victories made him the second highest scoring AFC pilot, just behind his good friend 'Harry' Cobby (29 victories).