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In [[2000]], by which time Bishop was brigadier and commander of the Corps, Bill enlisted the help of Lethbridge-Stewart to look for the missing Anne. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Two Brigadiers (short story)|The Two Brigadiers]]'') | In [[2000]], by which time Bishop was brigadier and commander of the Corps, Bill enlisted the help of Lethbridge-Stewart to look for the missing Anne. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Two Brigadiers (short story)|The Two Brigadiers]]'') | ||
By November [[2011]], Bishop had retired from active duty and served on the advisory board of the United Nations Security Council. He and Anne visited Sir Alistair in a nursing home, and were astral projected back in time to 1969 by the [[Laughing Gnome]]. Bishop found himself inhabiting the body of [[Jonathan James]]. He travelled to various time periods, including the 1930s, and 1999 where he ended up in the body of secret agent Calum Bence. By that point he began to wonder if he would ever return to his own body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Scary Monsters (novel)|Scary Monsters]]'', ''[[Fear of the Web (novel)|Fear of the Web]]'', ''[[The Danger Men (novel)|The Danger Men]]'') | By November [[2011]], Bishop had retired from active duty and served on the advisory board of the United Nations Security Council. He and Anne visited Sir Alistair in a nursing home, and were astral projected back in time to 1969 by the [[Laughing Gnome]]. Bishop found himself inhabiting the body of [[Jonathan James]]. He travelled to various time periods, including the 1930s, and 1[[1999|999]] where he ended up in the body of secret agent Calum Bence. By that point he began to wonder if he would ever return to his own body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Scary Monsters (novel)|Scary Monsters]]'', ''[[Fear of the Web (novel)|Fear of the Web]]'', ''[[The Danger Men (novel)|The Danger Men]]'') He finally arrived in [[1974]] and reunited with both Anne and Sir Alistair, and solved a mystery surrounding the Dominator, Vaar. Bill and Anne were then returned to 2011, while Alistair continued onto one more adventure. (PROSE: [[Rise of the Dominator (novel)|''Rise of the Dominator'']]) After Sir Alistair returned, they made a promise to him to spend some time with Smithy Gloyne, and this they did following Sir Alistair's funeral in January [[2012]]. (PROSE: ''[[Lucy Wilson and the Bledoe Cadets (novel)|Lucy Wilson and the Bledoe Cadets]]'') Sir Alistair left Bill the Gnome, and he used it to travel back in time once more, to discover the truth behind Alistair's decision to pursue a military career. He spent several months in the mind of a younger Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, living with him through the initial months of his National Service in the 1950s. (PROSE: ''[[On His Majesty's National Service (novel)|On His Majesty's National Service]]'') | ||
He was | In mid-[[2017]], Bill was diagnosed with a malignant, inoperable form of cancer. He was giving two years to live on the outside. He and Anne took to travelling, to see their final years out by living life. In February [[2018]], they were called out of retirement to help a crisis about time being changed in the year [[1896]]. After witnessing his wife be erased before him, Bill used a [[time ring]] and travelled back in time to stop the change. He was taken off track and ended up in an alternative [[1969]], where he met a version of Alistair known as Archie. He also met a version of his wife from that timeline's 1978. After completing his 'mission', he returned to his own time, hopefully to find things restored, including his wife. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[An Ordinary Man (novel)|An Ordinary Man]]'') | ||
Bill died at some in [[2019]], leaving behind him his wife, son, and grandchildren, [[Max Bishop|Max]], [[Emily Bishop|Emily]], [[Enoch Bishop|Enoch]] and [[Evan Bishop|Evan]]. (PROSE: ''[[The Stories We Tell (short story)|The Stories We Tell]]'') | |||
=== Other realities === | === Other realities === | ||
