ARNHEM D.DAY - DUNKIRK - V.E. DAY

As above but with 1d and 2½d Channel Islands Liberation 3rd Anniversary stamps.

13 May 83 - VELPOST - 3e Battalion 2c Regiment Infanteries. 1968 Cento-Nikmegen-Arnhem 28 May 83. Olive cachet. Reunion Bronbeek Arnhem.

13 May 83 - VELPOST - 3e Infanterie-Brigade-2e CIE-3eBAT-2R1 Cento-Nikmegen-Arnhem 28 May 83. Black cachet. Reunion Bronbeek Arnhem.

8 May 85 - London - 40th Anniversary of V.E. Day Westminster Abbey. Stamp publicity cover.

Personally Signed by Lieut.CoL.R.C.Hay DSO,DFC RM Joined the Royal Maries in 1935. He was with HMS Ark Royal for the Norwegian campaign and had taken part in the evacuation of Dunkirk with 801 Sqn. In early July 1940 he was with 808 Sqn Battle of Britain fighter pilot & WW11 Ace later Air Group Commander British Pacific Fleet December 1944 to June 1945... Details enclosed.Certified Cover No 2 of 12.

Signed by Major General Sir Allan Adair DSO, CO 3rd Battalion 1940 Dunkirk Beaches. 50 Certified Copy 50 issued.

As above but signed by General Sir Charles Richardson DSO Dunkirk Beaches 1940.

4 Jun 85 - Dunkerque Special - 45th Anniversary of Dunkirk. Signed by Major General V.H.J.Carpenter with the 50th Infantry Div Dunkirk,also Western Desert,Sicily,Normandy.After the War Korea,Palestine & Borneo .Was a 2nd Lt. 18Yrs at Dunkirk Joined the Army as a apprentice Artificer Royal Artillery in January 1936. 50 Numbered & issued.

As above but signed by Lord Kaberry of Adel during WW11 in the Royal Artillery and commanded a battery at Dunkirk, receiving a Mention in Despatches. ,Lord Kaberry of Adel was injured in the IRA bombing of London's Carlton Club June 1990 and died in March 1991,

Personaly Signed by Lord Cameron Kt DSC ( then Lieutenant John Cameron ) CO MTB 107 Dunkirk Beaches. Certified Copy No 78 of 100.

Signed by Lord Chelwood MC DL _ BEF 9th Royal Northumberland Fusiliers HMS Malcolm.Certified Copy 100

as above but Signed by Major General D A L Wade BEF,GHQ Signale Vice President Dunkirk Veterans Association. Certified Copy no 38 of 100.

8 6 1985 Calvados Postmark The Historic March of Piper Bill Millin. Added Pegasus Bridge 40th Anniversary Year of Victory in Europe. Flown from Guernsey to Caen in Piper Aztec via the Normandy Beaches. Personally Signed by Personally Signed by Major John Howard who led the glider-landed D Company, 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (Ox & Bucks) in an airborne assault in the early hours of June 6, 1944. Released at 8,000 feet over the Normandy coast, three gliders, each carrying 28 heavily armed troops, clipped the tops of a group of poplars skirting a field and bounced to a halt only a few yards from each other, at precisely 0016 hours. Although shaken by the impact, the glider troops poured out of the aircraft wreckage and, with Howard at their head, rushed and took the bridge. The Orne bridge to the east had also been secured, even though one glider involved in that assault had gone astray. The German counter-attack came at 0210 hours when German divisional headquarters realised the bridges had been taken. By that time, Howard and his glider troops had been reinforced from fresh airborne parachute landings and were able to hold Pegasus Bridge against an attack by elements of the 21st Panzer Division, strongly supported by artillery. Certified Copy of 50.

As above but Signed by Geoff Barkway DFM No 3 Glinder Glider Pegasus Bride 6th June 1940 and Corporal E Tappenden Radio Operator to Major John Howard whose radio signal‘ Ham & Jam indicated the successful taking of Pegasus Bridge.Red flown cachet on the back Flown from Guernsey to Caen in Piper Aztec G – AZMI via the Normandy Beaches. Flight time 45 minutes. Certified Copy No of 100

As above but as above but Signed by W.H.(Bill) Millin Piper Sword Beach Pegasus Bridge. Bill Millin, ""who piped British troops onto the Normandy Beaches on D-Day W.H.(Bill) Millin . Lord Lovat instructed his personal piper, Bill Millin, to pipe the commandos ashore, in defiance of specific orders not to allow such an action in battle.
Lovat's forces swiftly pressed on, Lovat himself advancing with parts of his Brigade from Sword Beach to Pegaus Bridge, which had been defiantly defended by men of the 6th Airborne Division who had landed in the early hours. Lord Lovat's commandos arrived almost exactly on time, late by about two minutes (for which Lord Lovat apologised to Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Pine-Coffin, 7th (Yorkshire Light Infantry) Parachute Battalion. The commandos ran across Pegasus Bridge to the sound of Bill Millin's Bagpipes also Signed by Captain Richard Todd 6th Airborne Division Pegasus Bridge 6th June 1944 and who later played the part of Wing Commander Guy Gibson in the film The Dam Busters ( 1954 ) staring along side Michael Redgrave as the inventor Barnes Wallis. On the back red flown cachet Certified Copy of 1 of 1 £49.95

as above but Signed by Private Wally Parr D Company Peagasus Bridge 6th June 1944. Certified Copy No 4 of 50

17 Jul 94 - Duxford Special on 25p D.Day stamp. D.Day patrol. Picture cachet of Spitfire IX flown by W.Cdr. J.E. Johnnie Johnson Commander of 144 Wing RCAF 3rd TAF on D.Day patrol from Ford Sussex.

18 Jul 94 BFPS 2402 Operation Goodwood Special Postmark 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of Argentan 20th August 1944. Personally Signed by FO G A Whitman No 3 ( F ) Sqn Typoons 1943 - 44 Certified copy No 1 of 20

As above but Signed by Sqn Ldr A H Smith DFC*MID 197 Typoon Sqn Normandy July - August 1944.

2 May 95 - London Peace & Freedon Special Postmark on 19p and 25p V.E. Day stamps. And 11th June 1946 Victory issues stamps datestamped Victory Commemoration Issue date 11 Jun 1946 St Paul's Cathedal Service of thanksgiving reconciliation and hopeBradbury Cover.

6 May 1995 Republic of Maldives FDI postmark 50th Anniversary of Peace in the pacific. V J Day First Day of Issue Commemorative Cover Personally Signed by Gwendoline Page ex WRNS Bletchley Park Indexing U - Boat Signals. Bletchley Park also known as Station X was home to the famous codebreakers of the Second World War and the birthplace of modern computing and communications.

8 May 95 - 50th Anniversary of V.E. Day. St Paul's, London postmark on 25p V.E. Day stamp. And 4d Churchill stamp.Picture cachet of Queen , KGV1 and Churchill Bradbury cover.