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80th Anniv of the RAF Air To Air Refuelling

80th Anniv of the RAF Air To Air Refuelling Signed by Gp Capt Vass OC RAF Brize Norton

Signed by ACM Sir Michael Graydon

Signed by ACM Sir Michael Knight and Sir Cobham

Signed by MRAF Sir Michael Beetham

signed William Reid VC and John Cruickshank VC.

. signed by Rt.Hon. Malcolm Rifkind.

01 04 98 Whitehall 80th Anniversary THe formation of the RAF .The Great War. 50th Anniversary of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation.Special . signed A.C.M. Sir Christopher Foxley Norris and Ronald Travers.

Special Signed by 4 vice Patrons of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation Lord Denning, Lord Puttnam of Queengate,Cliff Michelmore & David Shepherd.

50th Anniv Leonard Cheshire Foundation Signed Lady Ryder (wife )
23 06 98 Westminster 50th Anniversary of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation special postmark. 50th Anniversary of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation. Picture cachetr of Pilot Officer Geoffrey Leonard Cheshire Oxford University Air Squadron and Merton College Autumn 1937. On the reverse Red Flown Cachet Flown in Lancaster PA474 of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight from RAF Coningby on a training sortie in memory of Group Captain Lord Cheshire.
Personally Signed by Lady Ryder of Warsaw CMG OBE.
The Lady Ryder of Warsaw, better known as Sue Ryder, who has died aged 77, devoted her life to relieving suffering, principally through the homes and the foundation that bear her name;
Sue was educated at Benenden School, Kent, and was 16 when war broke out in September 1939. She immediately volunteered to be a nurse with the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. She was accepted but was soon posted to the Polish section of the Special Operations Executive. Her job involved driving SOE agents to the airfield to take off on their missions to sabotage industrial production in occupied Europe. Three hundred agents passed through her hands in this way, including the SOE commandos who attacked the heavy water plant in Norway.
In the course of this work, Sue Ryder was immensely impressed by the help given by members of resistance movements in occupied Europe to SOE agents. "They went into it in cold blood, of their own choice," she recalled. "They were fighting for us and they didn't have to do it. The fact that they faced what they did face, completely aware of what lay ahead, would have an appeal to anyone."
In 1943 she was posted to Tunisia, then to Italy. After the war, she volunteered to do relief work in Poland. In 1959, she married Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, VC, by now himself a charity worker, who had been setting up similar homes in Europe. Cheshire had been the official British observer of the destruction caused by the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and Sue Ryder came to feel strongly that nuclear weapons were a necessary deterrent to evil.
In 1975, she and her husband received the International Variety Club's Humanitarian Award, an honour previously won by Dr Albert Schweitzer, the missionary, and Sir Winston Churchill.
When she was offered a peerage in 1979, Sue Ryder took a long time deciding whether or not to accept. She finally did so, realising that the House of Lords could provide her with a useful platform. She took the title Baroness Ryder of Warsaw because, she explained, of her "great admiration, respect and love for the Polish people. I feel I belong to Poland."
In the House of Lords, Lady Ryder spoke regularly in debates on housing, the needs of the sick and disabled, unemployment, drug abuse, race relations and defence. She continued to work indefatigably for her foundation, routinely travelling 50,000 miles a year to visit homes and new sites and to attend official functions. When Poland first began to break free of Communism in the early Eighties, she organised the consignment of weekly lorry loads of aid.Certified Copy No of 100

Biggin Hill International Air Fair 1998.

Constellation crew signed (500).

Special signed Nikolai Timofeev World Aerobatic champion 1996

29 Jul 98 60th Anniv of the Spitfire in RAF Squadron service Postmark on Nevis Spitfire Stamp .Special signed Wg.Cdr.G.L.Sinclair Battle of Britain fighter pilot with 19 Sqn.

O30th Anniv Operation Varsity Flown cover
24 3 75 Vruxelles postmark 30th Anniversary Operation Varsity 24th March 1945 . Crossing of the River Rhine Airborne Operations link up of the British 6th Airborne Division and the American 17th Airborne Division over Brussels ,Black carried cachet Carried in BAC 1 - 11 G _ ASJF of British Caledonian Airways London ( Gatwick ) to Brussels . 99

Special signed Oberst Hajo Herrmann KC with Oakleaves & Swords Luftwaffe Pilot

Special Signed Hauptmann W.Schmidt K.C. Luftwaffe pilot

Operation Eagle Attack Signed Rettberg Luftwaffe Ace
13 Aug 98 Guernsey Postmark . Adlerangriff Operation Eagle Attack.
By 10th August the three Luftflotten stood ready to lauch the Major assault named Adlerangriff ( Eagle Attack ) which would drive the RAF from the Skies of Southern Britain. Four days, in the opinion of the German Air Staff, would see the shattering of the fighter defence south of London to Gloucester, and within four weeks the elimination of the entire RAF. Allowing for ten days notice required by the German navy for mine laying and other final preparations before the actual D Day the date of the invasion could thus be set for Mid September.Full details enclosed. Personally signed by Oberst Ralph von Rettberg, Knight's Cross holder. Commander 11/ZG 26 until 1 4 1940 when he became Squadron Commander of 1/ZG26. He then became Group Commander 11/ZG26 led it against France and England in the Balkan and in Russia.Early in 1942 with the rank of Wing Commander he formed the new ZG2 in Russia. From 12 1 1942 he headed the new ZG26 in the Mediterranean area and in home defence until September 1943. Then posted to Staff positions within the German airline, and with the 4. Flying Training Division . 200 missions, 8 aerial victories. 12 destroyed on the ground. Details . Certified Copy of 125.

Special Signed General Gunther Rall.K.C. with Oakleaves & swords Luftwaffe pilot.

Special signed By Major Gerhard Schopfel K.C.Luftwaffe pilot

Operation Eagle Attack Signed Mackenzie B of B pilot
15th September 2000 Duxford Special Postmark Adlerangriff Operation Eagle Attack. 13 August 1940
By 10th August the three Luftflotten stood ready to lauch the Major assault named Adlerangriff ( Eagle Attack ) which would drive the RAF from the Skies of Southern Britain. Four days, in the opinion of the German Air Staff, would see the shattering of the fighter defence south of London to Gloucester, and within four weeks the elimination of the entire RAF. Allowing for ten days notice required by the German navy for mine laying and other final preparations before the actual D Day the date of the invasion could thus be set for Mid September.Full details enclosed.Black Flown cachet flown in Messerschitt BF 109 G - 10 also flown in Hercules No 70 Sqn. Personally signed by Wing Commander K W Mackenzie DFC*AFCAE President of the Hawker Hurricane Society. Battle of Britain Pilot with No 43 and 501 Squadron. WW11 Ace. MacKenzie was hit by heavy flak from the ground defences and ditched in the sea. He took to his dinghy, paddled to the shore and was captured. He was in various camps before finishing up at Stalag Luft 11, Sagan.And helped with the Wooden HorseCertified Copy No 99 of 232

Special Signed by Flt LtL Martel Polish Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot 150 numbered & issued Signed

15 Mar 99 Bruxelles 50th Anniversary of Jet Fighters in the Belgian Air Force.

Signed by Lt.Gen. Guido Vanhecke Belgian Air Force. Chief of Staff.

Special . signed Lt. Gen. baron Michel Donnet.

Special . signed 3 DFC holders: P. Siroux G. Dieu and G. Jospis.

Special . signed 3 Belgian Air Force Chiefs of Staff.

Special with added set of 4 NATO stamps.

29 Sept 98 London FDI Postmark 20p car StpBritish Achievements in speed flown Hawker Hunter

Pilot Signed.USA 32c Yeager supersonic stamp.

Special with Full set of 5 Car Stamps First Day Cover.

As above But signed by Owen Wyn restorer of Thomas Parrys “Babs”

FDC full set of British Achievements in speed Signed Don Wales
29 Sept 98 Pendine Sir Malcolm Campbell Speed Special Postmark on set of 5 stamps British Achievements in speed, flown Hawker Hunter, Personally signed by Don Wales Grandson of Sir Malcolm Campbell and holder of the National Speed Record for electrically powered vehicles. Certified Copy No of 127.

as above but special signed by Gina Campbell daughter of Donald Campbell