GW30a - 39c

22.10.96 BFPS 2532 Verdun Special Postmark. 80th Anniversary The Great War Verdun The French counter attack. Blue flown cachet flown in Hercules of No 30 Sqn from RAF Lyneham to Corfu in Turkey. On the return flight a slight diversion was made in order to overfly the River Meuse in the Verdun area where the French counter attack took place between June & December 1916. by Captain Flt Lt R Payne. Personally Signed by Captain Flight Lieutenant R Payne. Backstamped Royal Air Force Lyneham

The Great War FDC Romania 1916 to 1917 Signed
6 12 96 BFPS 2533 80th Anniversary The Great War The Fall of Bucharest. Romania August 1916 to January 1917 . Blue flown cachet Flown in Hercules of No 30 Sqn RAF Lyneham to Corlu in Turkey overflying Romania en route and its capital city of Bucharest then direct back to Lyneham. Personally Signed by Hercules pilot Flt Lt R Payne.

Special-signed by His Majesty King Michael of Romania.31p.qe defin.stamp.

16-3-97-Whitehall-Operation Alberich Special.Signed.by son of Earl Alexander of Tunis.

2nd Battle of the Aisne Signed Hall WW1 Navigator
15.4.97 Whitehall 2nd Battle of the Aisne Special Postmark.The Second Battle of the Aisne The Nivelle Offensive.Cover depicts Albatros D11 Albatros D11's of Jasta 5 enforcing Air Supremacy over the battlefield in the Ailette Valley 16 April 1917, French Prisoners at the Citadel in Laon on their way to captivity 20 April 1917 and French soldiers prepare yet another advance over the bodies of their fallen comrades.On the reverse flown cachet flown in Hercules of No 30 Sqn from RAF Lyneham to Decimomannu and then back to Bruggen, returned from Bruggen to Lyneham after overflying the area between Reims and Soissons where the 2nd Battle of the Aisne was fought in April 1917. Personally Signed by W.G.Hall, RNAS Flew as a navigator with 16 Sqdn.later 216 Sqdn. From Ochey in the Nancy area of France on bombing operations against Industrial areas in Germany. Certified Copy 0067 of 498 Signed Gp Capt W S O Randle WW11 Wellington Pilot. RAF Ref no GW33c £8.95