The Gallantry Gazette OCTOBER 2020 The magazine for collectors Issue 32

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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.

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BC006 £60 The Museum cover BC006B £60 Signed by Ian Fraser VC, won on a midget attack

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BC006C £50 Limited edition covers carried by submarine and each was signed by the Commanding , 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 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

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 to the enemy” members of the British Armed Forces since 1857. The Victoria Cross is the highest and most prestigious award of the British honours system. It has been THE VICTORIA CROSS

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)

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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.

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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. the VC was introduced on 29 January 1856 by Queen Victoria to honour acts of valour during the THE VICTORIA CROSS

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

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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

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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

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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.

BCSP09S18 £55 BCSP09S19 £55 Signed by Ian Fraser VC and Edward Kenna VC Signed by Keith Payne VC and Edward Kenna VC.

8 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG32 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] BCSP09S9 £75 Since then there have been 295 ‘posthumous’ Victoria Crosses. From 1902 the Victoria Cross started to be awarded ‘posthumously’. THE VICTORIA CROSS BCSP09S20 £30 150th Anniversary of the VC cover signed by Bill Speakman, Signed by Edward Kenna and Tasker Watkins Keith Payne, John Cruickshank and Tasker Watkins - all VCs

BCV01 £15 BCSP09V £75 VC cover with 1st class Royal Seal stamp & VC stamp 150th Anniversary The Victoria Cross cover, signed by postmarked Windsor on the day that Joshua Leakey Keith Payne VC, Eric Wilson VC, Rambahadur Limbu received his VC medal from the Queen at Windsor castle VC and Awang anak Raweng GC. 14/4/15, also has a special cachet with info.

BCV03 £10.95 BCV02 £24.95 Marking the 100th anniversary of Alfred Joseph Knight Two 2015 Great War Rifleman Kulbir Thapa stamps, VC being awarded a Victoria Cross, the only Post Office one postmarked 09/06/2015 200th Anniversary Gurkha rifleman to do so, with 2016 P.O. Riffle stamp pmk Regiments service to the Crown and second postmarked 20/09/2017 plus VC stamp and special cachet. 25/09/2015 100th Anniversary of him, Kulbir Thapa, receiving VC, signed Joanna Lumley.

BCV06 £10.95 BCV04 £10.95 Marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of 100th anniversary of the Birth of Colonel Patrick (Pat) Sir Tasker Watkins VC our ‘We Will Remenber’ has a Porteous, he received his VC from KGVI at Buckingham Welsh daffodil regional stamp (he was born in Nelson Palace 27 October 1942, with 20p VC & 50p definitve ) postmarked 18/11/2018 plus 20p VC stamp stamps postmarked 01/01/2018 plus special cachet. and special cachet. www.buckinghamcovers.com 9 Only VC autographs have been listed here and some of these covers may include additional signatures. Photocopies or scans of any items are available on request

Richard Wallace Annand VC ERD DL (1914–2004) Benjamin Handley Geary VC (1891–1976) 4th Bn., 2nd Bn., The Durham Light Infantry The East Surrey Regiment, attd. 1st Bn. VCA002 Brooklet VC Card No. 38 Awarded the Victoria Cross VCG050 Signed piece professionally mounted with a write up on 15th May, 1940 near River Dyle, Belgium...... £50 of his actions,mount measures 280mm x 350mm VCA012 08/05/1995 Victory In Europe 1939 - 1945 Star ....£60 approximately...... £250 VCA014 27/05/1997 The Victoria Cross for Valour, The Gaje Ghale VC (1918-2000) 2nd B., George Cross for Gallantry ...... £60 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army Thomas Leslie Axford VC MM (1894-1983) 16th Bn., (S.A. VCG035 15/08/1995 Victory Over Japan ...... £70 and W.A.) Australian Imperial Force John Reginald Noble Graham VC OBE (1892-1980) 9th Bn., VCA018 15/07/1970 National Army Museum Group 5 No. 2 The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders The Victoria Cross ...... £250 VCG034 01/04/1970 National Army Museum Group II No 2 William Avery Bishop VC CB DSO & Bar MC DFC ED 93rd Foot. Sutherland Highlanders ...... £250 (1894–1956) Canadian Cavalry and 60 Squadron, Lachhiman Gurung VC (1917-2010) 8th Gurkha Rifles, Royal Flying Corps Indian Army VCB027 Photograph and write up of him measuring VCG028 Piece measuring approx 12cm x 6.4cm, 175mm x 252mm approx...... £300 blue card, signed ...... £60 James Power Carne VC DSO (1906-1986) Ali Haidar VC (1913-1999) 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Commanded 1st Bn., The Gloucestershire Regiment Indian Army VCC001 11/05/1980 Wing Commander R F Martin OBE VCH008 18/12/1970 National Army Museum Group 5 No 4 DFC AFC ...... £90 The Sutlej Medal ...... £125 Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter VC (1881–1955) Jack Harvey VC (1891–1940) 1/22nd (County Of London) Royal Navy Bn., The London Regiment, (The Queen’s) VCC030 A selection of Zeebrugge (1918) Association VCH012 .Signed piece professionally mounted with a write up Re-Union Dinner menus, one has been signed by of his actions, mount measures 280mm x 350mm Vice Admiral Alfred Francis Carpenter...... £350 approximately...... £250 Geoffrey St. George Shillington Cather VC (1890–1916) 9th Lieutenant General Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan, Bn., The Royal Irish Fusiliers 1st Baronet VC GCB DL (1830–1897) 10th Regiment (later VCC064 The Golden Treasury Second Series book printed The Lincolnshire Regiment) 1904 signed by Geoffrey Cather with note ‘As a small VCH016 Three page letter dated 02/12/1876 on headed paper, recognitionof many kindnesses’...... £400 United Service Club, Pall Mall SW to Thomas Cockbain Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire VC OM DSO & Two Bars DFC signed by Henry Havelock-Allan. Also includes small (1917-1992) Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve piece signed by Thomas Cockbain...... £500 VCC011 06/07/1968 Hovenden House Cheshire Home .....£50 Albert Hill VC (1895-1971) 10th Bn., VCC013 17/06/1972 Royal Air Force Colerne ...... £50 The VCC015 03/09/1983 First Bomber Command Operation over VCH015 26/07/1968 Royal Tournament Earls Court London, Germany: The First Leaflet Raid...... £40 Navy Army Air Force, Royal Engineers Postal Service VCC017 21/06/1972 The ‘Dam Busters’ cover commemorating to HM Forces ...... £250 617 Squadron Association Reunion Toronto and Opening of the Cheshire Home Toronto ...... £60 John Daniel Hinton VC (1909-1997) 20th Bn., 2nd N.Z.E.F. VCC021 31/05/1978 25th Anniversary of the Coronation of (The Canterbury Regiment) Queen Elizabeth II ...... £150 VCH007 28/04/1991 Evacuation from Greece ...... £120 VCC023 07/10/1977 In the 90th Year of Sir Barnes Wallis Norman Cyril Jackson VC (1919–1994) 106 Squadron, Royal C.B.E., F.R.S...... £275 Air Force Volunteer Reserve Arthur Roden Cutler VC AK KCMG KCVO CBE (1916-2002) VCJ001 13/09/1982 Commemorating the First Award of the 2/5th Field Artillery, Australian Military Forces Victoria Cross to an Airman 2nd Lt. W B Rhodes- VCC070 10/04/1984 The Award of the Air Force Cross ....£175 Moorhouse ...... £50 VCC073A Mount with newspaper clipping 4.5 x 3.5, signed ..£75 Manley Angell James VC DSO MBE MC (1896-1975) 8th (S) Job Henry Charles Drain VC (1895-1975) 37th Bty., Royal Bn., The Gloucestershire Regiment Field Artillery VCJ006 15/07/1970 National Army Museum Group 5 No.2 VCD002 Piece measuring approximately 25.4cm x 17.7cm, The Victoria Cross ...... £250 also giving Regiment and Date of Victoria Cross David Auldgo Jamieson VC CVO (1920-2001) The Royal signed, also giving Regiment and Date of VC.....£275 Norfolk Regiment Hughie Idwal Edwards VC KCMG CB DSO OBE DFC (1914– VCJ005 08/05/1970 25th Anniversary of V-E Day Royal Air 1982) 105 Squadron, Royal Air Force Force Benson ...... £125 VCE030 19/11/1980 60th Anniversary of the Queensland & Edward Kenna VC (1919–2009) Australian Military Forces Northern Territory Aerial Services (Qantas) ...... £75 VCK002C 06/05/1995 50th Anniversary of the End of World Harold Marcus Ervine-Andrews VC (1911-1995) The East War II Fiji ...... £85 Lancashire Regiment John Patrick Kenneally VC (1921-2000) Irish Guards VCE006 11/09/1990 The Life and Times of Queen Victoria ....£75 VCK020 02/05/1995 50th Anniversary VE Day Daily Express .£35 Ian Fraser VC, DSC, RD and Bar, JP (1920 – 2008), Royal VCK022 05/10/1999 Britain at War coin cover ...... £35 Naval Reserve VCK025 13/05/1993 The End of the War in North Africa ....£45 VCF019 11/09/1990 Awarded For Gallantry ...... £125 VCK034 23/09/1971 National Army Museum Group 1 No 10 The Royal Highland Fusiliers ...... £40 Philip Gardner VC MC (1914 – 2003), Royal Tank Regiment. VCK037 01/02/2000 1943 Pacific The Burma Star ...... £40 R.A.C. VCK042 08/05/1995 Victory In Europe The Italy Star ...... £40 VCG001A 09/12/1990 Western Desert ‘Operation Compass’ ...£60 VCK043 27/05/1997 The Victoria Cross For Valour The George VCG017 18/11/1991 Operation Crusader ...... £35 Cross for Gallantry ...... £45 VCG031 16/05/1998 The Windsor Victoria Cross Exhibition ..£40

10 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG32 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] Ganju Lama VC MM (1924-2000) 1st Bn., 7th Gurkha Rifles, Edgar Kinghorn Myles (1894-1977) 8th Bn., The Welch Regt., Indian Army attd. 9th Bn., The Worcestershire Regt. VCG026 27/05/1997 The Victoria Cross for Valour, The George VCM014A Signed piece professionally mounted with a Cross for Gallantry ...... £160 write up of his actions, mount measures 280mm x Edward Lawson (1873-1955) 1st Bn., 350mm approximately...... £250 The Gordon Highlanders Philip Neame VC KBE CD DSO (1888-1978) 15th Field VCL025 .Signed piece professionally mounted with a write up Company, Corps of Royal Engineers of his actions, mount measures 280mm x 350mm VCN006 15/07/1970 National Army Museum Group 5 No 2 approximately...... £500 The Victoria Cross ...... £175 Roderick Alastair Brook Learoyd VC (1913-1996) Gerard Ross Norton VC MM (1915-2004) Kaffrarian Rifles, 49 Squadron, Royal Air Force South African Forces, attended 1/4th Bn., The Hampshire VCL010 15/08/1984 The Award of the Victoria Cross to Airmen .£30 Regiment (later The Royal Hampshire Regiment) VCL010A 11/09/1990 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain VCN001A 10/04/1995 The Beginning of the End of the Gallantry ...... £50 War in Italy ...... £60 VCL013 01/09/1988 The Defence Medal ...... £15 VCN002 08/06/1996 Victory, Second World War cover listing VCL016B 11/09/1990 Salute To The Brave Battle of Britain .£100 the World War II South African Winners ...... £150 VCL017 04/09/1990 Salute To the Brave The Battle Britain .£100 VCN003 Plain card measuring approximately 13.7cm x 8.8cm, VCL020 12/08/1982 First Victoria Cross Awarded to a Pilot of ideal for framing, signed...... £75 Bomber Command ...... £30 VCN005 Brooklet VC Card No. 11 Awarded the Victoria Cross VCL036 01/05/1987 Mentioned In Despatches ...... £40 on 31st August 1944 at Monte Gridolfo, Italy...... £60 Sir Percival Scrope Marling (1861-1936) 3rd Bn., The King’s Keith Payne VC AM (1933- ) Royal Rifle Corps, attd. Mounted Infantry Australian Army Training Team, Vietnam VCM019 Signed piece professionally mounted with a write up VCP025 Brooklet VC Card No. 6 Awarded the V.C. for gallantry, of his actions, mount measures 280mm x 350mm South Vietnam, 24th May 1969 £25 approximately...... £500 ORDER FORM RETURN TO: BUCKINGHAM COVERS WARREN HOUSE SHEARWAY ROAD FOLKESTONE KENT CT19 4BF Please note, with older covers you may receive a different illustration from the one depicted. Please let us know if you require the one shown. Gallantry Gazette Issue 32 Gallantry PAGE ITEM QTY CODE £ p Set of Gallantry Awards Stamps 1 TCS1034 FREE

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Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts VC KG KP GCB VCP033A 15/07/1970 The National Army Museum Group 5. OM GCSI GCIE KStJ VD PC (1832–1914) Bengal Artillery No.2 The Victoria Cross ...... £275 VCR050A Letter signed ‘Fred Roberts’ to Mrs Glasgow, Edmund John Phipps-Hornby VC CB CMG DL (1857–1947) explaining that “Connemara, the house about which ‘Q’ Battery, Royal Horse Artillery I spoke to you, is not for rent. Should it be for rent next VCP035 Cut out piece, mounted on black board, measuring year, one of my ADC’s has got the refusal”. Letter 8.2 x 4.2 cm, signed ...... £250 dated 4 Oct 1888 from Snowdon, Simla...... £175 Basil Charles Godfrey Place VC CB CVO DSC (1921-1994) VCR050B Handwritten letter (11.4cm x 17.6cm) with envelope Royal Navy (12.2cm x 9.4cm) from address Englemere, Ascot VCP030 02/10/1976 75th Anniversary of Launch of First signed ...... £195 Submarine ...... £175 VCR050C Signed typed two page letter from 1914 about expenditure on the Navy ‘Spoiling the ship for Patrick Porteous VC (1918 – 2000) ha’porth of tar’, clear signature at the bottom ..£250 Royal Regiment of Artillery VCR050F Piece measuring approx. 8cm x 3.6cm signed £150 VCP010B 23/04/1997 The Royal Star & Garter Home, Endowment of the Raflet Stamp Club Room ...£100 Umrao Singh VC (1920-2005) Royal Indian Army VCP011B 06/06/1994 Operation ‘Overlord’ The Armies ...... £30 VCS001 Brooklet VC Card No. 26th Gained the VC in the Kaladan VCP014 08/05/1995 Victory In Europe The France and Valley, Burma, on 15th December 1944 ...... £75 Germany Star ...... £50 Quentin George Murray Smythe VC (1916-1997) Royal VCP015 02/05/1995 50th Anniversary of VE Day coin cover Natal Carabineers, South African Forces triple postmarked ...... £50 VCS016 15/07/1970 National Army Museum Group 5. No.2. VCP020 15/07/1970 National Army Museum Group 5 No. 2 The Victoria Cross ...... £150 The Victoria Cross ...... £75 Leonard Henry Trent VC DFC (1915–1986) VCP023 11/09/1990 The Life and Times of Queen Victoria .. £35 Royal New Zealand Air Force serving with 487 Squadron, VCP024 Brooklet VC Card No. 39 Awarded the Victoria Cross Royal Air Force on 19th August 1942 at Dieppe, France ...... £35 VCT001 03/05/1983 Lockheed Ventura Start of Operational VCP026 06/06/1984 40th Anniversary of D-Day cover ....£40 Service with the Royal Air Force ...... £75 VCP042 15/08/1984 The Award of the Victoria Cross VCT013 01/06/1978 Anniversary of the Formation of the to Airmen ...... £50 Squadron No. 40 (Transport) Squadron RNZAF .£95 Arthur Poulter (1893-1956) 1/4th Bn., The Duke of VCT014 25/05/1978 Anniversary of the Formation of the Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment Squadron No. 6 (Maritime) Squadron R.N.Z.A.F. £75 VCP037 Signed piece professionally mounted with a Charles Hazlitt Upham VC & Bar (1908-1994) 20th Bn., 2nd write up of his actions, mount measures N.Z.E.F, (The Canterbury Regiment) 280mm x 350mm approximately ...... £250 VCU001 08/05/1980 35th Anniversary of V-E Day ...... £200 Dighton Macnaghten Probyn VC GCB GCSI GCVO ISO PC VCU004 07/11/1984 Military History Stamp Issue New (1833–1924) 2nd Punjab Cavalry Zealand Post Office first day ...... £225 VCP006 Piece measuring approximately 11.5cm x 13.5 cm Tasker Watkins VC GBE DL (1918-2007) 1/5th Bn., signed his initial ‘D’ Sir Dighton Probyn, very rare The in any form ...... £250 VCW007 Brooklet VC Card No. 23 Awarded the V.C. at Barfour, VCP034 Our choice of handwritten letter with address of Normandy on 16th August 1944 ...... £30 Sandringham, Norfolk signed £395 Ferdinand Maurice Felix West VC CBE MC (1896–1988) Agansing Rai VC (1920-2000) 2nd Bn., 5th Royal Gurkha 8 Squadron, Royal Air Force Rifles, Indian Army VCW010 21/04/1977 Rittmeister Manfred, Freiherr von VCR062C A4 Information sheet giving details of the Gazette Richthofen Red Barron ...... £60 Citation for Agan Sing Rai VC MM underneath an VCW011 15/10/1982 60th Anniversary of the First Military image of him and also has his signature. Also Control Operations by the Royal Air Force ...... £50 includes a typed letter from his son dated 1998 £75 VCW011B 13/05/1972 No3 Squadron RAF 60th Anniversary of William Reid VC (1921 – 2001), 61 Squadron, the Formation of the Squadron ...... £80 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve VCW012 06/09/1978 60th Anniversary of the VC Award to VCR001 13/09/1965 Large 25th Anniversary of the Battle of Captain FMF West tribute ...... £60 Britain special commemorative ...... £100 Sir Henry Evelyn Wood, VC, GCB, GCMG (1838–1919) 17th VCR002 13/09/1965 Battle of Britain GPO first day cover £75 Lancers (Duke of Cambridge’s Own) VCR003A 13/09/1965 25th Anniversary of the Battle VCW019 9cm x 6cm approximately piece mounted on card of Britain ...... £100 and signed ...... £150 VCR003N 09/05/1981 Caterpillar Club ...... £25 VCW032 11.5cm x 6cm approximately piece signed with a VCR003S 22/09/1987 Royal Visit by Her Royal Highness The date 12.5.89 ...... £100 Princess Royal to Brazil ...... £25 VCR003T 16/05/1981 Tribute to ‘Jimmy’ H Orrell OBE ...... £25 Joseph Edward Woodall (1896-1962) 1st Bn., The Rifle VCR007 31/03/1984 31st Anniversary of the last flight Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own) of the Wellington ...... £25 VCW052 Signed piece professionally mounted with a VCR008M 06/09/1975 The Lancaster of the Battle of Britain write up of his actions, mount measures 280mm x Flight RAF Stafford Open Day ...... £25 350mm approximately ...... £250

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