The Gallantry Gazette JULY 2020 The magazine for Victoria Cross collectors Issue 31 SPECIAL SALE MAGAZINE Spend over £100 and receive 10% discount Spend over £150 and receive 15% discount Spend over £200 and receive 20% discount Spend over £250 and receive 25% discount 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 Norfolk Regiment plus 2 others. VCM024 £250 11/06/1971 National Army Museum Group 1 No 7 The Royal Regiment of Wales signed Edgar Kinghorn Myles VC DSO (1894-1977) 8th Bn., The Welch Regiment, 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 Royal Welch Fusiliers VCT004 £250 08/05/1986 World War II VE Day Anniversary Frederick Albert VCP033A £275 Tilston VC (1906-1992) The Essex-Scottish Regiment, 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 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 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 British Army, 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 & Tasker Watkins VC GBE DL. Don’t forget, FlexiPay is available on all orders, VCP003 £40 enabling you to spread the cost of your 21/09/2006 Large 150th Anniversary The Victoria Cross, covers! It’s simple and INTEREST FREE. Simply Russian Guns at Sebastopol signed Keith Payne VC AM divide the total by up to 12 months (1933- ) Australian Army Training Team, Vietnam. 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. 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 VCW019 £150 VCP041 £165 9cm x 6cm approximately piece mounted on card signed Sir Henry 15/08/1972 No 9 Squadron Royal Air Force 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 Gurkha 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 www.buckinghamcovers.com 5 SOME SPECIAL PROFESSIONALLY MOUNTED ITEMS READY FOR FRAMING. All mounts measure approximately 280mm x 350mm unless otherwise stated. All items have a picture and write up of the recipients actions together with their signatures mounted below. VCL025 £500 Edward Lawson VC (1873-1955) 1st Bn., The Gordon Highlanders. 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). 6 Warren House, Shearway Road, Folkestone, Kent Ct19 4Bf GG31 Tel 01303 278137 Fax 01303 279429 Email [email protected] SOME SPECIAL PROFESSIONALLY MOUNTED ITEMS READY FOR FRAMING. 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 Wellington’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 . Don’t forget, FlexiPay is available on all orders, enabling you to spread the cost of your covers! It’s simple and INTEREST FREE. Simply divide the total by up to 12 months 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 Wing Commander 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.