The Gallantry Gazette NOVEMBER 2020 The magazine for collectors Issue 33

VCZ4006 £100 £10 per month for 10 months 02/05/1995 The Royal Star & Garter Home signed John Kenneally VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Eric Wilson VC & Patrick Porteous VC, other signatures included.

VCT001 £75 £25 per month for 3 months 03/05/1983 Lockheed Ventura Start of Operational Service with the Royal Air Force May 1942 signed Leonard Trent VC DFC.

VCH007 £120 £20 per month for 6 months 28/04/1991 Evacuation from Greece cover signed John Hinton VC.

VCZ5002 £100 £25 per month for 4 months 11/09/1990 Gallantry cover signed Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Roderick Learoyd VC, Patrick Porteous VC, John Kenneally VC & Edward Kenna VC, other signatures included. VCZ3095 £150 £15 per month for 10 months 21/06/1988 Australian Bicentenary signed Roden Cutler VC AK KCMG KCVO CBE, Edward Kenna VC & Keith Payne VC AM.

£10 per month for 5 months VCC013 £50 17/06/1972 Royal Air Force Colerne signed Leonard Cheshire VC OM DSO & Two Bars DFC.

VCZ3100 £100 £50 per month for 2 months 08/05/1995 Cenotaph Memorial in Jamestown St. Helena 50th Anniversary of the End of World War II signed Edward Kenna VC, Keith Payne VC AM & Ernest Smith VC CM OBC CD, other signatures included. VCU001 £200 £50 per month for 4 months 08/05/1980 35th Anniversary of V-E Day signed £12.50 per month Charles Upham VCZ2076 £25 for 2 months VC and Bar. 15/08/1984 The Award of the Victoria Cross to Airmen signed William Reid VC & Roderick Learoyd VC, other signature included.

VCZ4001 £200 £40 per month for 5 months 11/09/1990 Gallantry Royal Mail first day signed Patrick Porteous VC, Harold Ervine-Andrews VC, William Reid VC & Roderick Learoyd VC, other signatures included.

VCZ7013 £250 £25 per month for 10 months 23/04/1997 Endowment of the Raflet Stamp Club Room signed £22.50 per month Edward Kenna VC, Thomas Gould VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar VCK025 £45 for 2 months JP, Patrick Porteous VC, Ernest Smith VC CM OBC CD, Rambahadur 13/05/1993 The End of the War in North Limbu VC MVO & John Kenneally VC, other signatures included. Africa signed John Kenneally VC. CALL US ON 01303 278137

VCR034 £100 £10 per month for 10 months 06/06/1994 Guernsey D-Day 50th Anniversary Post Office first day cover signed William Reid VC.

£42.50 per month for 2 months VCZ3055 £85 06/07/1983 101st Anniversary of the Formation of the 24th Middlesex (Post Office) Rifle Volunteers signed Philip Gardner VC MC, Eric Wilson VC & John Hinton VC, other signatures included.

2 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG33 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] VCJ001 £50 £10 per month for 5 months 13/09/1982 Commemorating the First Award of the Victoria Cross to an Airman 2nd Lt. W B Rhodes-Moorhouse signed Norman Jackson VC. awardedawarded for for gallantry gallantry “in the presence “in the presence of of to to the enemy” the enemy” members members of of the British the British Armed Armed Forces Forces since since 1857. 1857. The Victoria Cross is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It has been THE VICTORIA CROSS

£25 per month for 4 months VCZ3099 £100 11/09/1990 Salute to the Brave The Battle of Britain signed William Reid VC, Eric Wilson VC & Roderick Learoyd VC, other signatures included.

VCZ4024 £60 £30 per month for 2 months VCF019 £125 £12.50 per month for 10 months 28/05/1990 Invasion of Belgium signed 11/09/1990 Awarded For Gallantry signed Ian Fraser Thomas Gould VC, Eric Wilson VC, Edward VC DSC RD and Bar JP, other signatures included. Kenna VC & Richard Annand VC ERD DL, other signature included.

VCZ025 £35 £17.50 per month for 2 months Silhouette images of William Reid VC and Roderick Learoyd VC style print measuring 18cm x 25cm signed by both.

£25 per month VCW012A £75 for 3 months 06/09/1978 60th Anniversary of the VC Award to Captain Ferdinand West VC CBE MC tribute signed by him, other signatures included.

VCZ6011 £180

£20 per month for 9 months 28/05/1990 Invasion of Belgium signed Roderick Learoyd VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Eric Wilson VC, Edward Kenna VC, Richard Annand VC ERD DL & Gaje Ghale VC.

www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 VCZ3050 £125 £25 per month for 5 months VCL010 £30 £15 per month for 2 months 15/08/1984 The Award of the Victoria Cross to Airmen signed 15/08/1984 The Award of the Victoria Cross to Airmen Richard Burton VC, Roderick Learoyd VC & William Reid VC, signed Roderick Learoyd VC, other signature included. other signature included.

£50 per month for 3 months VCZ6003 £150 05/03/1981 St. Kitts official first day signed John Kenneally VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Patrick Porteous VC, Edward Kenna VC, Eric Wilson VC & Ganju Lama VC MM.

VCL013 £15 01/09/1988 The Defence Medal signed Roderick Learoyd VC, other signature included. VCC001 £90 £10 per month for 9 months 11/05/1980 Wing Commander R F Martin OBE DFC AFC tribute signed James Power Carne VC DSO (1906-1986) Commanded 1st Bn., The Gloucestershire Regiment.

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£25 per month for 3 months VCZ4022 £75 11/09/1990 Awarded For Gallantry signed Eric Wilson VC, John Hinton VC, David Jamieson VC CVO & Harold Ervine-Andrews VC, other signatures included.

VCP034 £395 £39.50 per month for 10 months Our choice of handwritten letter with address of Sandringham, Norfolk signed Sir Dighton MacNaghton Probyn VC GCB GCSI GCVO ISO PC.

4 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG33 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] VCR007 £25 £12.50 per month for 2 months 31/03/1984 Wellington 31st Anniversary of the last flight of the Wellington signed William Reid VC. Crimean War. Since then, the medal has been awarded 1,358 times to 1,355 individual recipients. the VC was introduced on 29 January 1856 by Queen Victoria to honour acts of valour during the THE VICTORIA CROSS

VCZ6005 £175 £25 per month for 7 months 04/06/1990 Evacuation From Dunkirk signed Thomas Gould VC, William Reid VC, Edward Kenna VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Harold Ervine-Andrews VC & Roderick VCW011 £50 £10 per month for 5 months Learoyd VC, other signature included. 15/10/1982 60th Anniversary of the First Military Control Operations by the Royal Air Force signed Ferdinand Maurice Felix West VC CBE MC (1896–1988) 8 Squadron, Royal Air Force.

£20 per month for 5 months VCZ2036 £100 13/09/1965 The Battle of Britain 25th Anniversary VCC015 £40 £10 per month for 4 months large cover signed William Reid VC & John 03/09/1983 First Bomber Command Operation Cruickshank VC, other signatures included. over Germany: The First Leaflet Raid signed Leonard Cheshire VC OM DSO & Two Bars DFC.

£25 per month for 5 months VCZ6019 £125 25/05/1983 St. Kitts Military Uniforms (Part II) signed Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Edward Kenna VC, Patrick Porteous VC, Eric Wilson VC, John Kenneally VC & Ganju Lama VC MM.

VCZ5012 £150 £15 per month for 10 months 04/06/1990 Evacuation from Dunkirk signed William Reid VC, Edward Kenna VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Harold Ervine-Andrews VC & Roderick Learoyd VC.

www.buckinghamcovers.com 5 £42.50 per month for 2 months VCK002C £85 06/05/1995 50th Anniversary of the End of World War II Fiji first day cover signed Edward Kenna VC.

VCZ4019 £250 £25 per month for 10 months VCZ2077 £35 £17.50 per month for 2 months 15/08/1984 The Award of the Victoria Cross to Airmen signed 04/08/2000 The National Ex- Roderick Learoyd VC, William Reid VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Association 55th Anniversary Liberation of British Bar JP & Charles Upham VC & Bar, other signature included. & Allied Prisoners of War signed John Cruickshank VC & Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP.

VCP025 £25 £12.50 per month for 2 months Brooklet V.C. Card No. 6 Warrant Officer Keith Payne VC, Australian Army Training Team. Awarded the V.C. for gallantry, South Vietnam, 24th May 1969, signed by him.

VCZ8010 £200 £50 per month for 4 months 10/07/1997 Gallantry first day signed Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Thomas Gould VC, William Speakman-Pitt VC, John Kenneally VC, Edward Kenna VC, Eric Wilson VC, William Reid VC & Philip Gardner VC MC, other signature included.

VCZ4021 £45 £22.50 per month for 2 months 05/02/1991 50th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force Rescue Services signed Eric Wilson VC, Roderick Learoyd VC, John Cruickshank VC & William Reid VC.

£17.50 per month for 10 months VCZ6014 £175 10/06/1997 Gallantry signed William Reid VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Thomas Gould VC, John Kenneally VC, Edward Kenna VC & Eric Wilson VC, other signatures included.

6 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG33 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] VCR001 £100 £10 per month for 10 months 13/09/1965 Large 25th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain special commemorative signed William Reid VC.

£25 per month for 4 months VCZ4017 £100 11/09/1990 Gallantry signed Roderick Learoyd VC, Patrick Porteous VC, John Kenneally VC & Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, other signatures included.

VCZ7021 £125 £25 per month for 5 months 06/01/1981 The Battle of Jersey 1781 signed Ganju Lama VC MM, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Eric Wilson VC, John Kenneally VC, Thomas Gould VC, Patrick Porteous VC & Rambahadur Limbu VC.

VCL020 £30 VCE006 £75 £25 per month for 3 months £15 per month 11/09/1990 The Life and Times of Queen Victoria for 2 months signed Harold Ervine-Andrews VC. 12/08/1982 First Victoria Cross Awarded to a Pilot of Bomber Command signed Roderick Learoyd VC, other signature included.

£20 per month for 5 months VCZ6016 £100 19/11/1980 60th Anniversary of the Queensland & Northern Territory Aerial Services (QANTAS) signed Edward Kenna VC, William Reid VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Roderick Learoyd VC, Hughie Edwards VC KCMG CB DSO OBE DFC & David Jamieson VC CVO.

VCZ4003 £100 £10 per month for 10 months 28/05/1990 Invasion of Belgium signed Edward Kenna VC, Keith Payne VC AM, Richard Annand VC ERD DL & William Reid VC.

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www.buckinghamcovers.com 7 VCG001A £60 £15 per month for 4 months 09/12/1990 Western Desert ‘Operation Compass’ signed Philip Gardner VC MC, other signature included. £25 per month for 4 months VCZ6001 £100 05/02/1991 50th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force Rescue Services signed William Speakman-Pitt VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Edward Kenna VC, John Cruickshank VC, William Reid VC & Roderick Learoyd VC.

VCZ4018 £125 £25 per month for 5 months 11/09/1990 Gallantry Royal Mail first day signed Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Edward Kenna VC, Eric Wilson VC & William Reid VC, other signatures included.

VCR003T £25 CALL US ON £12.50 per month for 2 months 01303 278137 16/05/1981 Tribute to ‘Jimmy’ H Orrell OBE signed William Reid VC.

VCZ7022 £150 £50 per month for 3 months 05/03/1981 St. Kitts official first day signed Thomas Gould VC, John Kenneally VC, Edward Kenna VC, Patrick Porteous VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Eric Wilson VC & Ganju Lama VC MM.

£25 per month for 7 months VCZ6008 £175 04/06/1990 Evacuation from Dunkirk signed Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, William Reid VC, Edward Kenna VC, John Hinton VC, Roderick Learoyd VC & Harold Ervine-Andrews VC.

VCW011B £80 £20 per month for 4 months 13/05/1972 No3 Squadron Royal Air Force 60th Anniversary of the Formation of the Squadron signed Ferdinand West VC CBE MC, other signatures included.

8 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG33 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] VCP011B £30 £10 per month for 3 months 06/06/1994 Operation ‘Overlord’ The Armies signed Patrick Porteous VC. SinceSince then then there there have have been been 295 ‘posthumous’ 295 ‘posthumous’ Victoria Victoria Crosses. Crosses. From 1902 the Victoria Cross started to be awarded ‘posthumously’. THE VICTORIA CROSS

£25 per month for 9 months VCZ7009 £225 04/06/1990 Evacuation from Dunkirk signed Keith Payne VC £17.50 per month AM, John Hinton VC, William Reid VC, Roderick Learoyd VCP023 £35 for 2 months VC, Edward Kenna VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP & 11/09/1990 The Life and Times of Queen Harold Ervine-Andrews VC, other signatures included. Victoria signed Patrick Porteous VC.

£50 per month for 2 months VCZ3002 £100 19/02/1992 Australians Under Fire signed Keith Payne VC AM, Edward Kenna VC & Roden Cutler VC AK KCMG KCVO CBE.

VCZ5004 £150 £50 per month for 3 months 01/04/1998 80th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force signed Patrick Porteous VC, Eric Wilson VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Philip Gardner VC MC & John Kenneally VC.

VCE030 £75 £25 per month for 3 months 19/11/1980 60th Anniversary of the Queensland & Northern Territory Aerial Services (QANTAS) signed Hughie Edwards VC KCMG CB DSO OBE DFC.

VCZ6007 £180 £18 per month for 10 months 11/09/1990 50th Anniversary of The Battle of Britain signed Keith Payne VC AM, William Reid VC, John Hinton VC, Roderick Learoyd VC, Edward Kenna VC & Eric Wilson VC, other signatures included.

£50 per month for 4 months VCZ4009 £200 06/07/1983 101st Anniversary of the Formation of the 24th Middlesex (Post Office) Rifle Volunteers signed Harold Ervine- Andrews VC, Eric Wilson VC, John Hinton VC & Roden Cutler VC AK KCMG KCVO CBE, other signatures included.

www.buckinghamcovers.com 9 VCZ6017 £225 £22.50 per month for 10 months 11/11/1982 Commemoration of Armistice Day signed 3 genuine signatures: 1. Cyril Royston Guyton Bassett VC (1892-1983) New Zealand Divisional Signal Company, N.Z.E.F. 2. John Daniel Hinton VC (1909-1997) 20th Bn., 2nd N.Z.E.F. (The Canterbury Regiment) 3. VC (1916–1989) 22nd Bn., 2nd N.Z.E.F.

3 facsimilie signatures: 1. Harry John Laurent VC (1895–1987) 2nd Bn., N.Z. (Rifle) Brigade, N.Z.E.F. 2. Alfred Clive Hulme VC (1911–1982) 23rd Bn., 2nd N.Z.E.F. (The Canterbury Regiment) 3. Charles Hazlitt Upham VC & Bar (1908-1994) 20th Bn., 2nd N.Z.E.F, (The Canterbury Regiment)

VCZ3045 £50 £10 per month for 5 months VCZ4005 £125 £25 per month for 5 months 05/02/1991 50th Anniversary of the Royal Air 11/09/1990 Awarded For Gallantry signed Harold Ervine- Force Rescue Services signed John Cruickshank Andrews VC, Eric Wilson VC, John Hinton VC & Patrick VC, William Reid VC & Roderick Learoyd VC. Porteous VC, other signatures included.

VCW012 £60 £15 per month for 4 months 06/09/1978 60th Anniversary of the VC Award to Captain Ferdinand West VC CBE MC tribute signed by him. VCZ7024 £75 £25 per month for 3 months 19/11/1980 60th Anniversary of the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services (QANTAS) signed Philip Gardner VC MC, Edward Kenna VC, Roderick Learoyd VC, Hughie Edwards VC KCMG CB DSO OBE DFC, Eric Wilson VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP & William Reid VC.

VCZ3052 £55 £27.50 per month for 2 months 08/05/1995 The Cenotaph, VCZ6002 £125 £25 per month for 5 months Whitehall, 05/02/1991 50th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force Rescue London, Services signed Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Falklands 50th Anniversary of the End of World War II signed Ernest Smith VC CM OBC CD, Edward Kenna VC, John Edward Kenna VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP & Cruickshank VC, William Reid VC & Roderick Learoyd VC. Rambahadur Limbu VC MVO, other signatures included.

10 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG33 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] VCSET01 £125 £12.50 per month for 10 months 01303 08/05/1995 Set of 6 Victory in Europe covers, each signed by a different Victoria Cross hero, Philip Gardner VC MC, John Kenneally VC, William Reid VC, Richard 278137 Annand VC, John Cruickshank VC & Patrick Porteous VC.

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VCM014A £250 £50 per month for 5 months Edgar Kinghorn Myles VC DSO (1894– 1977) 8th (Service) Bn., Welsh Regiment, British Army, attached to 9th (Service) Bn., Worcestershire Regiment.

“f CMYK / .eps Find us online at: www.buckinghamcovers.com VCP037 £250 @BuckinghamCover £25 per month for 10 months @BuckinghamCovers1 Arthur Poulter VC (1893-1956) 1/4th @BuckinghamCovers1 Bn., The Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment.

VCM019 £500 £50 per month for 10 months Sir Percival Scrope Marling, 3rd Baronet, VC CB DL (1861- 1936) 3rd Bn., The King’s Royal Rifle Corps, British Army.

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