The Gallantry Gazette OCTOBER 2020 the Magazine for Victoria Cross Collectors Issue 32
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The Gallantry Gazette OCTOBER 2020 The magazine for Victoria Cross collectors Issue 32 FREE WITH EVERY PURCHASE! Set of mint gallantry awards stamps issued 11 september 1990 QUOTE TCS1034 WHEN ORDERING TO RECEIVE YOUR * While stocks last | Limited to one free gift per Customer FREE GIFT Over the years we have designed and produced many wonderful new first day and commemorative covers here at Buckingham Covers. We have been fortunate enough to get relevant and interesting signers to autograph a number of covers in each issue. So, in this edition of Gallantry Gazette we mainly focus on the covers we have produced over the last 20 years, our official Buckingham Series, that have honoured, celebrated and been autographed by our VC heroes. BC013J £90 Set of 4 covers, with panes from the Prestige Booklet, signed by Rear Admiral Edward Gueritz, Lady Mountbatten, Geoff Hoon (MOD) and Lord Callaghan BC242MS3 £35 Signed by Baron Ashcroft who holds the largest VC medal collection BC242MAS2 £30 Signed by Stuart Archer GC and Tasker Watkins VC, with a Hyde Park postmark. Don’t forget, FlexiPay is available on all orders, enabling you to spread the cost of BC242S14 £50 your covers! It’s simple and INTEREST FREE. Full set of stamps, signed by Ian Fraser, Eric Wilson, Simply divide the total by up to 12 months Keith Payne and Daniel Keighran VCs 10 April 2001 - Submarines BC006 £60 The Royal Navy Museum cover BC006B £60 Signed by Ian Fraser VC, won on a midget Submarine attack LIMITED EDITION - CARRIED BY SUBMARINE BC006C £50 Limited edition covers carried by submarine and each was signed by the Commanding Officer, who also added their cachet, our choice BC006D £95 Signed by Thomas Gould VC which he won by helping to dislodge two unexploded bombs on HM Submarine Thrasher and Ian Fraser VC won on a midget submarine attack BC006E £120 Signed by WWII Admirals: Sir Arthur Hezlet, Sir Ian McGeoch, Sir John Roxburgh, Sir Iwan Raikes, Sir Ian McIntosh and Sir Anthony Troup. BC006K £70 Signed by Ian Fraser VC won on a midget Submarine attack and Dame Vera Lynn 22 October 2001 Flags and Ensigns BC013 £40 Home of Holland 1 cover, miniature sheet & FDI postmark BC013B £45 BC013A £40 Miniature sheet, carried Signed by Ian Fraser VC who in HMS Trafalgar, with ships won his VC taking part in a cachet and signed by the miniature submarine attack on Captain on the reverse a Japanese Cruiser 2 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG32 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] 22 October 2001 Flags and Ensigns cont. awarded for gallantry “in the presence of the enemy” to members of the British Armed Forces since 1857. since Forces Armed the British of members the enemy” to of gallantry “in the presence for awarded been system. It has honours the British of award prestigious and most is the highest Cross The Victoria CROSS THE VICTORIA BC013CW £45 BC013D £45 Rare carried double dated FDC, signed by Admiral Carried in HMS Trafalgar and signed by Admiral Sir John Sir John (Sandy) Woodward (Sandy) Woodward, President of the Centenary appeal and Commander Jeff Tall, Director of the RN Submarine Museum. BC013E £120 Miniature sheet, signed Admirals Derek Anthony, Tim McClement, Peter Davies, Rob Stevens, Niall Kilgour & Roy Newman. BC013I £100 Set of 4 official museum covers, each with a different pictorial pmk, bearing the 4 panes from the Prestige Booklet BC013K £50 Signed Admiral Sir Michael Pollock DSC, a WWII Submarine hero BC013L £60 Set of 4 covers each with a single stamp, signed McIntosh, McGeoch, Raikes and Gueritz BC013R £20 Holland I cover, with a single Nobel prize BC013Q £30 stamp and Stamps from miniature sheet with Liverpool Churchill special or Edinburgh postmark doubled with the day postmark the Afghan Conflict began (7/10) www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 12 October 2004 - 150th Anniversary of the Crimean War BC211A £25 Limited edition National Army Museum cover with full set of stamps and official 150th anniversary of VC postmark. BC211 £30 National Army Museum Crimean War cover with full set of stamps. BC211S £35 Full set of stamps signed by The Earl of Cardigan. BC211P £40 Signed by Victoria Cross winner Keith Payne, won in the Vietnam war. CALL US ON 01303 278137 BC211V £15 2nd class stamp & National Army Museum Chelsea pmk 12.10.04, Jersey £2 stamp & FDI 29.01.06 & Guernsey stamp & FDI 16.02.06 21 September 2006 150th Anniversary of the Victoria Cross BC242JS £40 Featuring a £2 Jersey VC stamp and FDI pmk, signed by 2 Victoria Cross BC242AS £50 winners, Eric Wilson VC Full set of VC Anniversary stamps, and Ian Fraser VC DSC. signed by Rambahdur Limbu VC BC242 £25 Full set of VC Anniversary stamps BC242AS1 £30 e-mail Signed by Awang anak Raweng GC EMAIL US * [email protected] 4 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG32 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] 21 September 2006 150th Anniversary of the Victoria Cross BC242M £25 150th VC anniversary miniature sheet. Crimean War. Since then, the medal has been awarded 1,358 times to 1,355 individual recipients. 1,355 individual 1,358 times to awarded been has the medal then, Since Crimean War. the during valour of acts honour to Victoria Queen 1856 by 29 January on introduced the VC was CROSS THE VICTORIA BC242MS £30 Signed by Sergeant William Speakman-Pitt VC 1st Battalion The King’s Own Scottish Borderers. BC242MAS £25 Signed by Stuart Archer GC. BC242MAS1 £30 Signed by Stuart Archer GC and Mark Donaldson VC BC242PSB £75 BC242PSBS £80 Set of 4 covers, each with a different pane from the Set of 4 covers each with a different VC or GC Prestige Booklet and each with a different postmark signature. BC242PSB2 £75 Set of 4 covers, each with a different pane from the Prestige Booklet and each with a Buckingham postmark. BC242T £50 Victoria Cross cover, with a single 2006 GB stamp and postmark, doubled with a Guernsey stamp and pmk, signed by Johnson Beharry VC BC242V £50 Victoria Cross cover, with a single Jersey £2 VC stamp CALL US ON and pmk, signed by Sir Tasker Watkins VC, Ian Fraser VC and Eric Wilson VC 01303 278137 www.buckinghamcovers.com 5 21 September 2006 - 150th Anniversary of the Victoria Cross cont BC242S £30 Full set of stamps, signed by Keith Payne VC DSC SS (USofA) BC242S1 £30 BC242S11 £40 Signed by Edward Kenna VC Signed by Mark Donaldson VC and Edward Kenna VC BC242S13 £50 BC242S4 £50 BC242S7 £50 Se-tennant pairs of stamps, Full set of stamps, signed by Awang anak Our choice cover, with Beharry PSB pane signed by Tul Bahadur Pun VC Raweng GC, John Bridge GC, GM and bar, and Hyde Park medal pmk, signed by Keith Payne VC Johnson Beharry VC BC242S15 £200 Sir George White VC, signature inserted in 150th Anniversary of the Victoria Cross cover Flexi-pay available on all items! No interest charged - payment options over up to 12 months 6 November 2008 - Lest We Forget BC332MS £40 Lest We Forget cover featuring the miniature sheet and our postmark, signed by Willie Apiata VC 15 November 2011 - Kings & Queens House of Hanover BC432S £50 Signed by VC winner Ben Roberts-Smith BC432S2 £45 Signed by Corporal Daniel Keighran VC from Australian Army 6 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG32 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] 9 September 2015 - Long to Reign Over Us BC529AS £30 Queen Elizabeth II cover with stamps from miniature sheet, signed Bill Speakman VC BC529MBS £30 Full barcoded miniature sheet, signed Bill Speakman VC. FREE WITH EVERY PURCHASE! Set of mint gallantry awards stamps issued 11 september 1990 * While stocks last | Limited to one free gift per Customer QUOTE TCS1034 WHEN ORDERING BC562G £10 Centenary of WWI Poppy cover with 2017 Poppy stamp postmarked 14/09/17 honouring Captain Noel Chavasse 2nd VC award with VC stamp and cachet PLUS Lest We Forget Poppy stamp postmarked 11/11/17 to remember all who fell in 1917 BCN01 £10.95 Centenary of Gordon Campbell’s Victoria Cross 1917- 2017, features the former Q-Ship Commander on the cover, postmarked in Saltash (where he resided 1915- 1918) on the anniversary date 17/02/17 + VC stamp BCSP01G1 £75 Bader Bale Out, pmk 09/08/01 doubled with our choice of Guinea Pig Club or BoB Memorial postmark, BCSP01I £35 signed by three VC winners, Keith Payne, Ian Fraser & Bader Bale Out, Goodwood pmk doubled with BoB or Tasker Watkins Guinea Pig Club postmark, signed by Keith Payne VC www.buckinghamcovers.com 7 BCSP09 £15 BCSP09FS3 £30 150th Anniversary of the Victoria Cross cover featuring one 20p VC stamp from the 1990 Gallantry set, an Earl of Limited edition Victoria Cross cover signed by Lt. Cardigan IOM stamp and one new 2004 Crimea stamp. Commander Ian E Fraser, VC, Royal Naval Reserve. BCSP09FS8 £45 BCSP09FS9 £45 Victoria Cross cover with full set of Crimean War stamps Full set of Crimean War stamps, doubled with an IOM stamp & issued 12 October 2004, signed by John Cruickshank VC. postmark, signed by Mark Donaldson VC and Edward Kenna VC. BCSP09S15 £65 BCSP09S17 £55 12/10/04 double, signed by John Cruickshank VC, Ian This cover has a medal stamp from 1990 Gallantry set, an Fraser VC, Bill Speakman-Pitt VC, Sir Tasker Watkins VC Earl of Cardigan IOM stamp and one new 2004 Crimea and Eric Wilson VC stamp, signed by Eric Wilson VC and Edward Kenna VC.