The Gallantry Gazette JULY 2020 The magazine for collectors Issue 31

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VCG034 £250 VCJ006 £250 01/04/1970 National Army Museum Goup II No 2 93rd Foot. 15/07/1970 National Army Museum Group 5 No 2 The Victoria Cross Sutherland Highlanders signed John Reginald Noble Graham VC signed Manley Angell James VC DSO MBE MC (1896-1975) 8th (S) OBE (1892-1980) 9th Bn., The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Bn., The Gloucestershire Regiment.

VCJ007 £70 08/10/1994 Hinckley & District Philatelic Society signed David Auldgo Jamieson VC CVO (1920-2001) The Royal Regiment plus 2 others. VCM024 £250 11/06/1971 National Army Museum Group 1 No 7 The signed Edgar Kinghorn Myles VC DSO (1894-1977) 8th Bn., The , attended 9th Bn., The Worcestershire Regiment.

VCN006 £175 15/07/1970 National Army Museum Group 5 No 2 The Victoria Cross signed Philip Neame VC KBE CD DSO (1888-1978) 15th VCH015 £250 Field Company, Corps 26/07/1968 Royal Tournament Earls Court London, of Royal Engineers Navy Army Air Force, Royal Engineers Postal Service to HM Forces signed Albert Hill VC (1895-1971) 10th Bn., The VCT004 £250

08/05/1986 World War II VE Day Anniversary Frederick Albert VCP033A £275 Tilston VC (1906-1992) The Essex-, Canadian Infantry Corps. 15/07/1970 National Army Museum Group 5 No 2 The Victoria Cross signed Randolph Pearkes VC PC CC CB DSO MC CD OD (1888-1984) 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Bn., Quebec Regiment, C.E.F.

VCC062 £275 Black & white photograph of Gordon Campbell measuring approximately 9cm x 14cm signed by him, Gordon Campbell VC DSO & Two Bars (1886- 1953) Royal Navy

VCZ7018 £325 15/08/1984 Large cover measuring approximately 32cm x 23cm The Award of the Victoria Cross to Airmen signed William Reid VC, Roderick Learoyd VC, Leonard Cheshire VC OM DSO & Two Bars DFC, John Cruickshank VC, Norman Jackson VC, Leonard Trent VC DFC & Ferdinand West VC CBE MC, other signature included.

VCA018 £250 15/07/1970 National Army Museum Group 5 No. 2 The Victoria Cross signed Thomas Leslie Axford VC MM (1894- 1983) 16th Bn., (S.A. and W.A.) Australian Imperial Force..

VCB027 £300 Air Marshal William Avery Bishop VC CB DSO & Bar MC DFC ED (1894-1956) Canadian Don’t forget, FlexiPay is available on all orders, Cavalry and 60 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, signed below a photograph and write up of him enabling you to spread the cost of your measuring approximately 17.5cm x 25.5cm covers! It’s simple and INTEREST FREE. Simply divide the total by up to 12 months

2 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG31 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] 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

VCD002 £275 Piece measuring approximately 25.4cm x 17.7cm, also giving Regiment and Date of Victoria Cross signed Job Henry Charles Drain VC (1895-1975) 37th Bty., Royal Field Artillery.

VCP034 £395 Our choice of handwritten letter with address of Sandringham, Norfolk signed Sir Dighton MacNaghton Probyn VC GCB GCSI GCVO ISO PC (1833-1924) 2nd Punjab Cavalry.

VCC030 £350 A selection of Zeebrugge (1918) Association Re-Union Dinner menus, one has been signed Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter VC (1881–1955) Royal Navy.

VCH016 £500 Three page letter dated 02/12/1876 on headed paper, United Service Club, Pall Mall SW to Thomas Cockbain signed by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Marshman Havelock-Allan, 1st Baronet VC GCB DL (1830–1897) 10th Regiment (later The Lincolnshire Regiment). Also includes small piece signed by Thomas Cockbain.

www.buckinghamcovers.com 3 VCP035 £250 Cut out piece, mounted on black board, measuring 8.2 x 4.2 cm, signed Brigadier General Edmund John Phipps-Hornby VC CB CMG CL (1857-1947) Royal Artillery.

VCP006 £250 Very rare in any form, a piece measuring approximately 11.5cm x 13.5cm signed his initial ‘D’ Sir Dighton MacNaghton Probyn VC GCB GCSI GCVO ISO PC (1833-1924) 2nd Punjab Cavalry.

VCZ026 £275 11/09/1990 Gallantry signed Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Philip Gardner VC MC, Thomas Gould VC, Edward Kenna VC, John Kenneally VC, Rambahadur Limbu VC MVO, Keith Payne VC AM, William Reid VC, Ernest Smith VC CM OBC CD, Eric Wilson VC & Patrick Porteous VC. Other signatures included.

VCZ2038 £100 06/07/1983 , The Scorpion, leading an advance column of British troops in the Falklands 1982 signed Philip Gardner VC MC & Eric Wilson VC, other signatures included.

VCZ3047 £125 16/03/1989 Sergeant Luke O’Connor Awarded VC at Battle of the Alma 20 September 1854 signed John Hinton VC, William Speakman-Pitt VC & VC GBE DL.

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4 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG31 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] 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

VCW019 £150 VCP041 £165 9cm x 6cm approximately piece mounted on card signed Sir Henry 15/08/1972 No 9 Squadron 30th Anniversary Evelyn Wood VC GCB GCMG (1838–1919) 17th Lancers (Duke of of the Formation of the Pathfinder Force signed Basil Charles Cambridge’s Own) Godfrey Place VC CB CVO DSC (1921-1994) Royal Navy.

VCZ121 £400 25/03/1983 St Kitts Military Uniform (Part II) signed Gerard Norton VC MM, Ganju Lama VC MM, Keith Payne VC AM, Edward Kenna VC, John Kenneally VC, Patrick Porteous VC, Eric Wilson VC, Ernest Smith VC CM OBC CD, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP & Thomas Gould VC.

VCR062C £75 A4 Information sheet giving details of the Gazette Citation for Agansing Rai VC MM (1920-2000) 2nd Bn., 5th Royal Rifles, Indian Army, underneath an image of him and also has his signature. Also includes a typed letter from his son dated 1998.

VCZ3100 £100 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.

VCZ5006 £200 06/07/1983 The Royal Green Jackets signed CALL US ON Edward Kenna VC, Keith Payne VC AM, Eric Wilson VC, Philip Gardner VC & Ali Haidar VC. 01303 278137

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VCL025 £500 Edward Lawson VC (1873-1955) 1st Bn., The .

VCG050 £250 Benjamin Geary VC (1891-1976) 4th Bn., The East Surrey Regiment, attd. 1st Bn

VCW052 £250 VCH012 £250 Joseph Edward Woodall (1896-1962) 1st Bn., The Rifle Brigade Jack Harvey VC (1891-1940) 1/22nd (County of London) Bn., (Prince Consort’s Own) The London Regiment, (The Queen’s).

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VCH013 £250 John Hogan VC (1884-1943) The 2nd Bn., The Manchester Regiment.

VCP037 £250 Arthur Poulter VC (1893-1956) 1/4th Bn., The Duke of ’s (West Riding) Regiment.

VCM019 £500 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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CALL US ON VCM014A £250 Edgar Kinghorn Myles VC DSO (1894–1977) 8th (Service) Bn., Welsh Regiment, British Army, attached to 9th (Service) Bn., 01303 278137 Worcestershire Regiment.

www.buckinghamcovers.com 7 VCC001 £90 11/05/1980 R F Martin OBE DFC AFC tribute signed James Power Carne VC DSO (1906-1986) Commanded 1st Bn., The Gloucestershire Regiment. Other signature included. VCW018 £275 11cm x 8cm approximately Royal Hospital, Chelsea stationery piece mounted on paper signed Sir George Stuart White VC GCB OM GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO (1835-1912) 92nd Regiment (later The Gordon Highlanders)

VCZ2036 £100 13/09/1965 The Battle of Britain 25th Anniversary large cover signed William Reid VC & John Cruickshank VC, other signatures included. VCW011 £50 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

VCZ7002 £295 07/04/1978 Marshal of RAF The Viscount Trenchard of Wolfeton signed VCZ3008 £170 Leonard Trent VC DFC, Leonard Cheshire VC OM DSO & Two Bars DFC, 01/07/1996 75th Anniversary of the Royal British Legion signed Richard Annand Ferdinand West VC CBE MC, Roderick Learoyd VC, John Cruickshank VC ERD DL, Eric Wilson VC & John Kenneally VC, other signatures included. VC, William Reid VC & Norman Jackson VC, other signature included.

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8 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG31 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] Since then there have been 295 ‘posthumous’ Victoria Crosses. From 1902 the Victoria Cross started to be awarded ‘posthumously’. THE VICTORIA CROSS

VCZ2077 £35 VCW010 £60 04/08/2000 The National Ex- Association 55th Anniversary Liberation of British & Allied Prisoners of War signed John 21/04/1977 Rittmeister Manfred, Freiherr von Richthofen Cruickshank VC & Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP. Red Barron signed Ferdinand Maurice Felix West VC CBE MC (1896–1988) 8 Squadron, Royal Air Force.

VCZ8010 £200 10/07/1997 Gallantry first day signed Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar VCZ7021 £125 JP, Thomas Gould VC, William Speakman-Pitt VC, John Kenneally 06/01/1981 The Battle of Jersey 1781 signed Ganju Lama VC, Edward Kenna VC, Eric Wilson VC, William Reid VC & Philip VC MM, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Eric Wilson Gardner VC MC, other signature included VC, John Kenneally VC, Thomas Gould VC, Patrick Porteous VC & Rambahadur Limbu VC.

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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.

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www.buckinghamcovers.com 9 VCZ4003 £100 VCZ6001 £100 28/05/1990 Invasion of Belgium signed Edward Kenna VC, Keith 05/02/1991 50th Anniversary of the Royal Air Force Rescue Services signed Payne VC AM, Richard Annand VC ERD DL & William Reid VC. William Speakman-Pitt VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Edward Kenna VC, John Cruickshank VC, William Reid VC & Roderick Learoyd VC.

VCZ7022 £150 VCZ027 £295 05/03/1981 St. Kitts official first day signed Thomas Gould VC, John Kenneally VC, Edward Kenna VC, Patrick Porteous VC, Ian Fraser VC 1995 Royal Star & Garter Home signed Edward Kenna VC, John Kenneally DSC RD and Bar JP, Eric Wilson VC & Ganju Lama VC MM. VC, Roderick Learoyd VC, Keith Payne VC AM, Patrick Porteous VC, Eric Wilson VC, John Cruickshank VC, William Reid VC, Thomas Gould VC, & Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, other signatures included

VCZ5004 £150 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.

VCZ6017 £225 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. Keith Elliott VC (1916–1989) 22nd Bn., 2nd N.Z.E.F. plus 3 facsimilie signatures 1. Harry John Laurent VC (1895–1987) 2nd Bn., N.Z. (Rifle) Brigade, N.Z.E.F. 2. Alfred Clive 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)

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VCZ3052 £55 08/05/1995 The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London, Falklands 50th Anniversary of the End of World War II signed Edward Kenna VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP & Rambahadur VCZ4006 £100 Limbu VC MVO, other VCW012A £75 06/09/1978 60th Anniversary of the VC signatures included. 02/05/1995 The Royal Star & Garter Home signed John Award to Captain FMF West tribute signed Ferdinand Maurice Kenneally VC, Ian Fraser VC DSC RD and Bar JP, Eric Wilson Felix West VC CBE MC (1896–1988) 8 Squadron, Royal Air VC & Patrick Porteous VC, other signatures included. Force, other signatures included. 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 31 PAGE ITEM QTY CODE £ p

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FIELD MARSHAL FREDERICK SLEIGH ROBERTS VC, KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, KStJ, VD, PC (1832-1914)

The London Gazette 24th VCR050A £175 £25 per month December 1858 over 7 months Autographed letter signed ‘Fred Roberts’ to Mrs Described how Lieutenant , explaining that “Connemara, the house about Roberts’s gallantry had on every which I spoke to you, is not for rent. Should it be for rent occasion been most marked. next year, one of my ADC’s has got the refusal”. Letter On following up the retreating dated 4 Oct 1888 from Snowdon, Simla enemy on the 2nd January 1858, at Khodagunge, he saw in the distance two sepoys going away with a standard. They immediately turned round and presented their muskets at him, and one of the men pulled the trigger, but fortunately the cap snapped and the standard-bearer was cut down by this gallant young . He also on the same day, cut down another sepoy who was standing at bay with musket and bayonet keeping off a sowar. Lieutenant Roberts rode to the assistance of the horseman, and rushing at the sepoy with one blow of his sword cut him across the face killing him on the spot.

VCR050C £250 £50 per month over 5 months Typed two page letter from 1914 about expenditure on the Navy ‘Spoiling the ship for ha’porth of tar’ signed VCR050B £195 £19.50 per month over 3 months Handwritten letter (11.4cm x 17.6cm) with envelope (12.2cm x 9.4cm) from address Englemere, Ascot signed £25 per month over 6 months VCR050F £150 Piece measuring approximately 8cm x 3.6cm signed by Lord Roberts Commander in Chief India

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