Bill Reid - WW2 Legend VC Signature

Bill Reid - WW2 Legend VC SignatureA 1944 club membership card signed by Bill Reid as "William Reid VC", one of the greatest pilots of WWII. He was awarded the UKs highest award for valour for his conduct on a bombing raid to Dusseldorf on November 3, 1943. It is a rectangular, printed membership application card for The Thirty Club at 30 Castleton Boulevard, Skegness. It is dated January 24, 1944 and records Reids rank as Ft Lt (Flight Lieutenant), and his address as RAF Woodhall. It

Dr Douglas Latto

Ryan has written the following note:

despite Plate 3 being registered on 25 August 1862

GB Specialised Catalogue Number: M54(2)

which are much rarer

The recipient would typically be stung by a charge of several pounds

millionaire aviation enthusiast Harry Guggenheim dipped into a promotional fund he had set up with his father

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with shield depicting the Union Flag and with the British Lion at her feet presiding over the ocean and despatching a winged messenger to each of the four points of the compass

owned by the renowned scholar Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick (1783 – 1848) who assembled one of England’s finest private collections of antiquities

Rusty Schweickart (Apollo 9)

The stamps of Dominica were replaced by general issue stamps of the Leeward Islands on 31 October 1890