The Gallantry Gazette DECEMBER 2018 the Magazine for Victoria Cross Collectors Issue 22 MULTI SIGNED VE-DAY 50Th Anniversary

The Gallantry Gazette DECEMBER 2018 The magazine for Victoria Cross collectors Issue 22 MULTI SIGNED VE-DAY 50th Anniversary

02/05/1995 & 08/05/1995 50th Anniversary of VE Day signed presentation card, measuring 23.5cm x 27cm approximately

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Signatories Captain Richard Annand VC, ERD, DL (1914 – 2004), 2nd Bn., The Durham Light Infantry

Company Quartermaster Sergeant John Kenneally VC (1921 – 2000), Irish Guards

A/Captain Philip Gardner VC MC (1914 – 2003), Royal Tank Regiment. R.A.C.

A/Flight Lieutenant William Reid VC (1921 – 2001), 61 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Colonel Patrick Porteous VC (1918 – 2000), Royal Regiment of Artillery

Flight Lieutenant John Cruickshank VC (1920 - ), 210 Squadron, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

Lieutenant Commander Ian Fraser VC, DSC, RD and Bar, JP (1920 – 2008), Royal Naval Reserve

Lieutenant Colonel Eric Wilson VC (1912 – 2008), The East Surrey Regiment, attd. Somaliland Camel Corps Sign up to our £50 per month VCP010B VC emails. over 2 months £100 Quote ‘VCE’ to 23/04/1997 The Royal Star & Garter Home, our Customer Endowment of the Raflet Stamp Club Room cover Service Team or signed Patrick Porteous. visit our website

VCF023 £25 15/07/1970 National Army VCC049 £25 Museum Group 5. No. 2. The 16/09/1986 The Royal Air Force 50th Anniversary cover signed Victoria Cross cover signed John Cruickshank. Ian Fraser.

VCL030 £75 21/09/2006 Victoria Cross Royal Mail first day cover signed Rambahadur Limbu.

VCC013 £60 17/06/1972 Royal Air Force Colerne cover signed Leonard Cheshire.

VCZ2044 £60 09/09/1983 First Bomber Command Operation over Germany 3 September 1939: The First Leaflet VCK025 £45 Raid cover signed 13/05/1993 The End of the War in North Africa cover signed Leonard Cheshire John Kenneally. and William Reid.

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2 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG22 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] VCZ4023 £85 02/04/1974 Royal Guernsey Militia first day cover signed Ernest Smith, Edward Kenna, John Kenneally and Gerard Norton.

VCR003S £25 VCC011 £60 22/09/1987 Royal Visit by Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal to Brazil cover signed William Reid. 06/07/1968 Hovenden House Cheshire Home cover signed Leonard Cheshire.

VCL031 £50 16/01/1972 National Army Museum Group 2 No 11 Early Gurkha Uniform cover signed Rambahadur Limbu.

VCP012 £40 09/05/1985 Guernsey Peace in Europe first day cover signed Patrick Porteous.

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VCR019A £60 08/10/1985 British Film Year 8 Oct 1985 ‘The Dam VCR060 £60 Busters’ cover signed Brooklet VC Card No. 27 Sepoy (Subadar) William Reid. Bhandari Ram VC 10th Baluch Regiment, Indian Army. Gained the VC at East Mayu, Arakam, Burma, on 22nd November 1944, signed by him.

www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 VCC045 £45 02/05/1995 50th Anniversary Victory in Europe triple postmarked coin cover signed John Cruickshank.

VCF026 £25 20/01/1978 200th Anniversary of the Hawaiian Islands and Alaskan Coast Explorations cover signed Ian Fraser.

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VCN001A £60 10/04/1995 The Beginning of the End of the War in Italy cover signed Gerard Norton.

VCP019 £35 04/06/1990 50th Anniversary Operation ‘Dynamo’ Evacuation From Dunkirk cover signed Patrick Porteous.

VCZ8009 £175 £30 per month for 4 months 06/01/1981 The Battle of Jersey 1781 cover signed Ganju Lama, Eric Wilson, John Kenneally, Ernest Smith, Rambahadur Limbu, Thomas Gould, Ian Fraser and Patrick Porteous.

VCR008L £25 10/06/1997 Lancaster Bale-Out by Frank Wootton cover signed William Reid.

VCF023 £25 01303 278137 15/07/1970 National Army Museum Group 5. No. 2. The EMAIL: [email protected] Victoria Cross cover signed Ian Fraser.

4 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG22 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] VCR003P £25 01/09/1988 50th Anniversary of RAF Pitreavie Castle cover signed William Reid. VCK002C £85 06/05/1995 50th Anniversary of the End of World War II Fiji first day cover signed Edward Kenna.

VCW023 £25 17/09/2004 150th Anniversary The Victoria Cross tribute to Major RH Cain VC 60th Anniversary The Battle of Arnhem signed Eric Wilson.

VCW008 £30 16/08/1994 50th Anniversary of Sir Tasker Watkins winning his Victoria Cross postcard signed by him.

VCZ2042 £40 06/02/1990 The Battle of Britain The Skirmishing cover signed William Reid and John Cruickshank.

VCC017 £75 21/06/1972 The ‘Dam Busters’ cover commemorating 617 Squadron Association ReUnion Toronto and Opening of the Cheshire Home Toronto signed Leonard Cheshire.

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VCW002 £25 VCP010 £50 21/09/2006 a card measuring 24cm x 16cm approximately with a Victoria Cross Gallery image of Lieutenant Reginald 06/06/1994 50th C. Hart, Royal Engineers, defending a wounded Sowar of Anniversary Jersey the 15th Bengal Lancers during the Afghan War signed Sir D-Day cover signed Tasker Watkins. Patrick Porteous.

VCR004C £40 25/10/1983 44th Anniversary of the First Flight of the Handley Page Halifax cover signed William Reid.

VCZ2046 £30 10/08/1995 Australia Remembers II 1945 cover signed Edward Kenna and Keith Payne.

VCX006 £25 1990 The Victoria Cross & George Cross Association Christmas and New Year card, personal message inside and signed William Reid.

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amazing covers? Don’t VCZ4022 £75 forget to ask about Flexi Pay! Call 11/09/1990 Awarded For Gallantry cover signed Eric Wilson, John Hinton, David Jamieson and 01303 278137 for full details. Harold Ervine-Andrews.

6 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG22 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] VCR003N £25 09/05/1981 Caterpillar Club cover signed William Reid.

VCW009 £20 20/09/2002 Tribute Victoria Cross cover to Sergeant A J Knight 2nd/8th Battalion, The London Regiment (Post Office Rifles) VCR062B £50 winning his Victoria Cross at the Alberta Section of Ypres on 20th Brooklet VC Card No 15 RFM. September 2017 signed Sir Tasker Watkins. Agansing Rai VC. 2/5th Gurkha Rifles, (Frontier Force) Indian Army. Gained the VC at Bishenpur, Burma on 25/26th June 1944, signed by him.

01303 VCZ2070 £40 278137 12/08/1982 First Victoria Cross Awarded to a Pilot of Bomber Command: 12/13 August 1940 cover signed William Reid and Roderick Learoyd.

VCP011 £40 19/08/1982 40th Anniversary of the Dieppe Raid cover signed Patrick Porteous.

VCZ3102 £45 16/02/2006 150 Years of the Victoria Cross Guernsey first day cover signed William Speakman, Ian Fraser and Keith Payne.

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www.buckinghamcovers.com 7 Sign up to our VCZ4021 £45 VC emails. Quote ‘VCE’ to 05/02/1991 50th Anniversary of the Royal our Customer Air Force Rescue Services cover signed Service Team or Eric Wilson, Roderick Learoyd, John visit our website Cruickshank and William Reid.

VCK021 £35 16/05/1998 The VCZ2069 £30 Windsor Victoria Cross 19/07/1988 400th Anniversary of the Armada cover signed Exhibition cover signed and Ian Fraser Thomas Gould. John Kenneally.

VCF017 £40 11/09/1990 The Life & Time of Queen Victoria cover signed Ian Fraser.

VCZ3103 £40 16/06/1982 35th Anniversary of the RAF Marine Branch cover signed Ian Fraser, Thomas Gould and William Reid.

VCR003 £35 06/06/1994 The D-Day Landings 50th Anniversary of Operation Overlord signed William Reid. VCG004 £45 02/05/1995 50th Anniversary Victory In Europe coin cover triple postmarked signed Philip Gardner.

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8 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG22 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] VCZ4025 £60 04/06/1990 Evacuation From Dunkirk cover signed Ian Fraser, Edward Kenna, William Reid and Harold Ervine-Andrews.

VCG011 £35 16/05/1998 The Windsor Victoria Cross Exhibition cover signed VCK002B £25 Thomas Gould. 03/05/1993 The First Arakan Campaign cover signed Edward Kenna.

VCR008M £25 06/09/1975 The Lancaster of the Battle of Britain Flight RAF Stafford Open Day cover signed William Reid.

VCZ2043 £40 01/09/1988 The Defence Medal cover signed William Reid and Roderick Learoyd.

VCZ2045 £35 04/08/1980 80th Birthday of HM Queen VCR017 £50 Elizabeth The Queen Mother cover signed Eric 03/12/1970 The Wilson and Edward Kenna. Dam Busters 617 Squadron Royal Air Force Scampton cover signed William Reid.

VCW022 £25 30/07/2002 150th Anniversary Institution of the Victoria Cross signed Eric Wilson.

www.buckinghamcovers.com 9 National Army Museum Covers ONLY 1 OF EACH AVAILABLE, ALL AT £15 EACH All signed by; Private Edward Kenna (1919 – 2009), 2/4th Bn., (N.S.W.), Australian Military Forces Lieutenant Colonel Eric Wilson (1912 – 2008), The East Surrey Regiment, attd. Somaliland Camel Corps

VCZ2047 VCZ2048 VCZ2049 VCZ2050 14/02/1970 Group 1 Cover No. 1 The 10/07/1971 Group 1 No. 9 The Light 03/03/1970 Group II Cover No. 1 15/06/1970 Group III No. 1 Oliver Queen’s Regiment. Infantry. American War of Independence. Cromwell The Founder of the New Model Army 1599 - 1658.

VCZ2051 VCZ2052 VCZ2053 VCZ2054 01/04/1970 Group II No. 2 93rd Foot. 15/06/1970 Group II No. 3 Civil War 04/12/1970 Group II No. 5 Horse 25/10/1970 Group III No 3 Lieutenant Sutherland Highlanders. Uniform c. 1645. Brigade Royal Artillery. General Lord Cardigan.

VCZ2055 VCZ2056 VCZ2057 VCZ2058 21/09/1970 Group III No. 4 Maj. 17/03/1971 Group 1 No 4 Royal Irish 23/09/1971 Group 1 No 10 The 07/02/1972 Group 1 No. 12 Queen’s General Lord Kitchener. Rangers. Royal Highland Fusiliers. Own Highlanders.

VCZ2059 VCZ2060 VCZ2061 VCZ2062 28/02/1971 Group 2 No 6 Uniforms 16/05/1971 Group 2 No 7 Officer of 10/07/1971 Group 2 No 8 The Light 02/08/1971 Group 2 No 9 The The Worcestershire & Sherwood the 60th at Albuhera. Infantry 1854. Queen’s Regiment 1747. Foresters Regiment.

10 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG22 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] VCX007 £35 2004 The Victoria Cross & George Cross Association Christmas and New Year card, personally written and signed John Cruickshank.

VCR003V £25 25/09/1984 44th Anniversary of the Winning of the Battle of Britain cover signed William Reid. £35 per month VCZ6005 over 5 months £175 04/06/1990 Evacution From Dunkirk cover signed Thomas Gould, William Reid, Edward VCP015 £50 Kenna, Ian Fraser, Harold Ervine-Andrews 02/05/1995 50th Anniversary of VE and Roderick Learoyd. Day coin cover triple postmarked signed Patrick Porteous.

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VCR003T £25 16/05/1981 Tribute to ‘Jimmy’ H Orrell OBE cover signed William Reid.

£50 per month VCZ8010 over 4 months £200 10/07/1997 Gallantry first day cover signed Ian Fraser, Thomas Gould, William Speakman-Pitt, John Kenneally, Edward Kenna, Eric Wilson and William Reid.

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VCZ4024 £60 28/05/1990 Invasion of Belgium cover signed Thomas Gould, Eric Wilson, Edward Kenna and Richard Annand.

VCP016 £35 19/08/1992 Produced by The Spitfire Society ‘Wings of War’ cover signed Patrick Porteous.

VCR002 £75 13/09/1965 Battle of Britain GPO first day cover signed William Reid.

VCZ2066 £20 29/01/1986 Home made The Victoria Cross cover signed Edward Kenna and Eric Wilson.

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