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[4] the use of bagpipes was restricted to rear areas by the time of the second world war by the british army. lovat, nevertheless, ignored these orders and ordered millin, then aged 21, to play. when private millin demurred, citing the regulations, he recalled later, lord lovat replied: \"ah, but that's the english war office. you and i are both scottish, and that doesn't apply\". millin played \"highland laddie\", \"the road to the isles\", and \"all the blue bonnets are over the border\" as his comrades fell around him on sword beach. millin stated that he later talked to captured german snipers who claimed they did not shoot at him because they thought he had gone mad. millin, whom lovat had appointed his personal piper during commando training at achnacarry, near fort william in scotland, was the only man during the landing who wore a kilt - it was the same cameron tartan kilt his father had worn in flanders during world war i - and he was armed only with his pipes and the sgian-dubh, or \"black knife\", sheathed inside his kilt-hose on the right side. lovat and millin advanced from sword to pegasus bridge, which had been defiantly defended by men of the 2nd bn the ox and bucks light infantry (6th airborne division) who had landed in the early hours by glider. lovat's commandos arrived at a little past one p. m. at pegasus bridge although the rendezvous time in the plan was noon. to the sound of millin's bagpipes, the commandos marched across pegasus bridge. during the march, twelve men died, most shot through their berets. later detachments of the commandos rushed across in small groups with helmets on. millin's d-day bagpipes were later donated to dawlish museum. a set of pipes he used later in the campaign, after the originals became damaged, were donated to the now \"pegasus bridge museum\"."},"estimateMax":50,"lotNumber":"83","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/68063/lot/258534/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_MedalsandMilitaria","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":40,"soldPrice":42,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T00:25:47.055Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£40 - £50","currency":"GBP","id":258534,"category":{"en":"Army"},"estimateMin":40},{"startPrice":10,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/chaucerauctions/cloned-images/258535/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"ww2 rare battle of britain ace d parker 66 sqn signed mraf sykes cover. 13 apr 87 bfps 21921 marshal of the royal air force sir f. sykes. blue flown cachet flown in bristol of shuttleworth collection at the flying display at old warden aerodrome. personally signed by gp capt g j oxlee officer commanding raf brampton also signed by sgt pilot denis k parker 616 sqn battle of britain. wynn battle of britain details enclosed."},"estimateMax":14,"lotNumber":"84","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/68063/lot/258535/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_MedalsandMilitaria","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":10,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T00:25:47.056Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£10 - £14","currency":"GBP","id":258535,"category":{"en":"Battle of Britain"},"estimateMin":10},{"startPrice":50,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/chaucerauctions/cloned-images/258536/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2025-11-28","available":false,"description":{"en":"ww2 d-day nancy wake resistance soe white mouse signed internetstamps fdc. nancy wake the most decorated female of wwii who worked for the resistance and soe and was known as the white mouse by the gestapo who put a reward of millions of francs up for her capture. amazing cover highly collectable. isle of man stamps and special postmark, doubled with gb stamps and blandford special glider postmark. nancy grace augusta wake, ac, gm (30 august 1912 - 7 august 2011), also known as madame fiocca and nancy fiocca, was a new zealand-born nurse and journalist who joined the french resistance and later the special operations executive (soe) during world war ii, and briefly pursued a postwar career as an intelligence officer in the air ministry. wake joined the special operations executive (soe) under the code name \"hélène\". on 29-30 april 1944 as a member of a three-person soe team code-named \"freelance\", wake parachuted into the allier department of occupied france to liaise between the soe and several maquis groups in the auvergne region, which were loosely overseen by émile coulaudon (code name \"gaspard\"). 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and that in spitfires. from 1928 to 1933 \"jim\" fenton held a raf short service commission but then left to become a civil flying instructor. immediately before the second world war he was chief flying instructor at air service training on the hamble in hampshire. in later years it amused him to think of the future raf aces who received such dismissive reports as 'this officer would make a perfect nco' and 'the only thing this officer is likely to pass is water'. in february 1940 fenton was recalled to the raf and posted to no 8 flying training school at montrose as a flight commander in the advanced training squadron. by june trained pilots were at a premium and fenton was appointed to command 238 squadron. fenton led the squadron throughout much of the battle of britain. on 8th august shipping in the channel was subject to intense attacks and 238 squadron was scrambled repeatedly. in a lunchtime melee over the sea, fenton's pilots shot down two me109s, damaged a third and destroyed two me110 twin-engined fighters. the squadron lost two hurricanes and fenton was \"wave-hopping\" for survivors when he spotted a heinkel 59 seaplane. he attacked it successfully but was hit by return fire and had to ditch in the sea. in the course of his escape from the cockpit, fenton's parachute broke free. it floated and he clung to it until he was picked up by the armed convoy escort trawler 'bassett'. fenton shared the skipper's cabin with a rescued german pilot. after a spell in hospital fenton returned to 238 squadron. towards the end of september the squadron was reduced to five serviceable aircraft; fenton's impassioned plea produced eight replacement hurricanes. by the end of the battle of britain he had destroyed a dornier 17 bomber and a me110. in may 1941 238 squadron was sent to the middle east where fighter reinforcements were desperately needed. the hurricanes and air crew were embarked in the carrier 'victorious' at scapa flow. 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prisoners left the camp with two guards, actually two fellow pows in bogus german uniforms. once outside, the group split up. the others were quickly recaptured, but he and flight lieutenant lorne welch, wearing fake uniforms, walked to a nearby airfield and attempted to steal an aircraft, a junkers w 34. they had to abandon the attempt when the rightful crew appeared to fly away the aircraft. the next day, they returned and tried to steal a biplane, but were caught and eventually sent to oflag iv-c at colditz. he was liberated from colditz by the american army in april 1945. captain michael burn mc served with the queens westminster krrc ( territorial) no 2 commando. his campaigns were carried out in norway 1940 and the raid on st nazaire marth 28th /29th 1942. he was captured on 28th march 1942 arrived at colditz 9th august 1943 - 45. he was awarded mc. cover has slight fold across the 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joined 17 squadron at debden on 24th may 1940 as a sergeant pilot. the squadron was sent briefly to le mans to cover the withdrawal of the bef. before retreating to dinard, the pilots found some abandoned motorcycles and raced them around the famous motor circuit. in late june they flew back to debden via jersey. on 12th july fopp shared in the destruction of a he111. on 3rd september he was scrambled in a flight of three spitfires; \"we were scrambled late and did not get to sufficient altitude to achieve a favourable attacking position from above, with the result that we had to attack head-on at about 20, 000 feet, and hope to break up the large formation of do 17s, with guns blazing which did separate them considerably. \"i had just put a dornier's engine out and he was smoking badly when i saw three me 110s coming in behind me in line astern, all i heard was a thump and the next second i was sitting in a ball of fire. \" he parachuted from his burning plane, but not before he was badly burned. i therefore left fairly hurriedly by parachute and arrived at brentwood still smouldering. in fact the harness of my parachute was still burning on arrival. i was immediately set upon by the local farmer and had a bit of a job convincing him that i was british due to my burnt closes-however a few choice bits of language convinced him! fopp was in hospital for three months, for the first month of which he was blind and swathed in bandages. showing incredible fortitude and resilience, fopp recovered and returned to operations 12 months later. his first posting on recovery was as a staff pilot at 3 school of general reconnaissance, blackpool. he then rejoined 17 squadron at elgin in july 1941. commissioned on 3rd november 1941, fopp went to 132 squadron, operating spitfires at peterhead, as a pilot officer and later flying officer. he was appointed flight commander in may 1942 and flew on many 'rhubarb' sorties (raids over france), exceptionally dangerous missions where the aim was to fly low level, shooting at anything that moved, disrupting communications and drawing the luftwaffe into action. during this period he claimed an fw190 destroyed. he had arranged for his spitfire v to be cleaned and polished to coax some extra speed from it. in describing one of his attacks on a german train, a fellow pilot once said that fopp 'was a bloody crazy australian, but he obliterated that train!\" at the end of his tour with 132 squadron, fopp was mentioned in dispatches (gazetted 1st january 1943). he then spent three months as a fighter tactics liaison officer with the 8th and 9th us army air forces based in east anglia. in may 1944 he went to cfs upavon for a flying instructors course and was posted to afu wrexham, operating twin-engine oxfords. on 26th july 1944 his oxford was involved in a mid-air collision at night over cheshire. immediately taking control from the student, fopp managed to land the badly damaged aircraft safely. the aircraft had lost most of 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'you left it a bit late, ' he said. his first real taste of action came on october 21 1939, when he shot down two of some dozen heinkel 115 floatplanes that were attacking a north sea convoy off the yorkshire coast. in early december, north of arbroath in scotland, sheen shared in the destruction of an he 111 bomber. flying so low that he opened fire at a level below the top of a nearby lighthouse, he was hit by return fire and wounded in the leg. i stopped a couple of bullets, sheen explained. one went through my earphones and the other got me in the thigh. the most serious was a bullet in my fuel tank. the petrol began to stream into the cockpit. i went in again to attack but i was dizzy and decided to turn for home. after a spell in hospital, in april 1940 sheen was posted to the embryo photographic-reconnaissance unit which had been formed under sidney cotton, another intrepid australian. the two men flew down to the south of france and to sardinia where, flying unarmed spitfires, they made photo-recce sorties over italy. sheen resumed with no 72 at the end of july 1940 and later, after the battle of britain and a second spell in hospital, took part in a night action over the north sea which he described in a broadcast on the bbc. in bright moonlight, on the night of march 13-14 1941, he intercepted a ju 88. as i opened fire i could see my tracer bullets bursting in the junkers like fireworks. . . when i turned in for my next attack i saw that one of the germans engines was beginning to burn but just to make quite sure of him i pumped in a lot more bullets then i had to dive like mad to avoid ramming him. not long after this, sheen received command of no 72. flying from biggin hill, he led the squadron - 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(clarence) eaker one of america's great air pioneers. the ira eaker aviation museum in dallas is a fitting tribute to the son of a texas tenant farmer who enlisted as a private in 1917, got his wings at kelly field in san antonio, and ended his career as a four-star general in 1947. the museum is also another in a long list of honors for the man who commanded both the 8th air force and the mediterranean allied air forces during world war ii. eaker was commander of 8th air force when it deployed to england in early may 1942. by april 1945, he had accomplished his task by helping defeat nazi germany and freeing western europe. before the end of the war, eaker, like many other army air force leaders, had made up his mind that the military should be reorganized. he wanted the services unified and the air arm to have parity with the army and navy. on april 13, his 49th birthday, eaker was satisfied that the war in europe was over, and made plans to go back to washington, according to his biographer. after returning to aaf headquarters in april 1945, eaker \"was in the forefront in developing force structure, redeployment plans and organizational plans for the postwar air force, \" stated an air force history report. the history report also points to eaker as one of the top men at aaf headquarters in 1945-47, when the aaf fought the successful battle for a separate air force. eaker's executive officer during world war ii writes that even before it was fashionable, the general had a nameplate on his desk that read \"air force spoken here. \" in 1977, when eaker was 81, he received the wright trophy, given annually to a civilian for aiding the cause of aviation. two years later, at age 83, he received the congressional gold medal an award first given to george washington in 1777, and regarded ever since as the noncombatant equivalent of the medal of honour. general curtis emerson le may united states air force. he is credited with designing and implementing an effective, but also controversial, systematic strategic bombing campaign in the pacific theatre of ww11. during the war, he was known for planning and executing a massive bombing campaign against cities in japan and a crippling minelaying campaign in japan's internal waterways. after the war, he unintentionally initiated the berlin airlift, then reorganized the strategic air command (sac) into an effective instrument of nuclear war. he served as chief of staff of the u. s. air force from 1961 until his retirement in 1965 and by air commodore r dick b17 flying fortress pilot who flew the covers. brigadier general frank l gailer jr usaf. he then entered the aviation cadet program and received pilot training at parks air college, garden city, kan. , and eagle pass, texas, where he earned his pilot wings and commission as second lieutenant. in september 1943 general gailer was assigned to columbia army air base, s. c. , for tactical training in the b-25 aircraft and in february 1944 was transferred to p-40 training at thomasville, ga. in july 1944 he joined the 357th fighter group in england as a p-51 pilot. flying with the 363rd fighter squadron, he was credited with destroying 6 1/2 enemy aircraft before he was shot down in november 1944 and interned by the germans as a prisoner of war in stalag one. general gailer returned to the united states in 1945; 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served with 317 and 303 sqdns, raf in gb, 1941. anderson was posted to no. 2 school of army co-operation at andover on 15th june 1940 but a week later went to 5 otu aston down for conversion to blenheims. he then joined 29 squadron at digby on 6th july. he remained with the squadron until 20th july 1941 and after an attachment to kirton-on-lindsey he was posted to 89 squadron, then forming at colerne with beaufighters. the squadron flew out to the middle east in late november 1941 and began operating from abu sueir in the night defence of the delta. r wolton on 16th december 1940 wolton was sent to cfs upavon for an instructor's course. he was afterwards posted to 16 fts newton, instructing polish pupils. commissioned in march 1941, wolton moved to 51 otu cranfield on 8th april 1942 to instruct on night fighters. he joined 153 squadron at ballyhalbert, northern ireland on 20th january 1943. after it was disbanded on 13th march he went to 96 squadron at honiley. from 18th may to 6th august 1943 wolton was attached to 417 squadron (usaaf) to convert its crews to beaufighters. he then went to 63 otu at honiley until 27th october when he rejoined 96 squadron, then at drem. the squadron was disbanded on 17th december 1944 at odiham and wolton went to 239 squadron at west raynham, flying mosquitos on radio countermeasures. wolton was released from the raf on 24th july 1946 but he rejoined on 3rd march 1947 for a further eighteen months, finally retiring on 4th september 1948 as a flight lieutenant."},"estimateMax":14,"lotNumber":"487","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/68063/lot/258938/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_MedalsandMilitaria","ukCollectibles_philately","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":10,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T00:27:02.048Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£10 - £14","currency":"GBP","id":258938,"category":{"en":"Battle of Britain"},"estimateMin":10},{"startPrice":8,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/chaucerauctions/cloned-images/258939/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2025-11-28","available":false,"description":{"en":"ww2 battle of britain pilots l. martel r. wolton signed capt j liddell raf cover ha40 rarer double flown variety signed by bob pilots l martel 64 sqn, r wolton 152 sqn spitfire. ludwik martel polish officer served as pilot with 603 sqdn, raf in gb, 1940 including battle of britain; 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served with 317 and 303 sqdns, raf in gb, 1941. anderson was posted to no. 2 school of army co-operation at andover on 15th june 1940 but a week later went to 5 otu aston down for conversion to blenheims. he then joined 29 squadron at digby on 6th july. he remained with the squadron until 20th july 1941 and after an attachment to kirton-on-lindsey he was posted to 89 squadron, then forming at colerne with beaufighters. the squadron flew out to the middle east in late november 1941 and began operating from abu sueir in the night defence of the delta. r wolton on 16th december 1940 wolton was sent to cfs upavon for an instructor's course. he was afterwards posted to 16 fts newton, instructing polish pupils. commissioned in march 1941, wolton moved to 51 otu cranfield on 8th april 1942 to instruct on night fighters. he joined 153 squadron at ballyhalbert, northern ireland on 20th january 1943. after it was disbanded on 13th march he went to 96 squadron at honiley. from 18th may to 6th august 1943 wolton was attached to 417 squadron (usaaf) to convert its crews to beaufighters. he then went to 63 otu at honiley until 27th october when he rejoined 96 squadron, then at drem. the squadron was disbanded on 17th december 1944 at odiham and wolton went to 239 squadron at west raynham, flying mosquitos on radio countermeasures. wolton was released from the raf on 24th july 1946 but he rejoined on 3rd march 1947 for a further eighteen months, finally retiring on 4th september 1948 as a flight lieutenant."},"estimateMax":10,"lotNumber":"488","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/68063/lot/258939/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_MedalsandMilitaria","ukCollectibles_philately","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":8,"soldPrice":8,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T00:27:02.050Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£8 - £10","currency":"GBP","id":258939,"category":{"en":"Battle of Britain"},"estimateMin":8},{"startPrice":10,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/chaucerauctions/cloned-images/258940/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"en":"ww2 rare battle of britain pilot flt lt roddick l smith 151 sqn signed raf cover. sir sydney camm historic aviators cover ha7 1978, flown by hunter and also signed by the pilot m snelling afc. r smith flight commander 412 sqn rcaf, flight commander 126 sqn raf, squadron commander 401 sqn rcaf. one of canada's most skilful spitfire pilots, his victory total included a shared victory over an me262 jet fighter. born in 1922, he joined the rcaf and was sent to scotland for training on the spitfire mk. i. he was posted to malta with no. 126 sqn, where his older brother was already serving. his brother was killed in action during their time in malta, and roderick himself was forced to bail out of his burning aircraft. on d-day, he flew over the normandy beaches as flight commander of no. 412 sqn rcaf. he returned to canada in december 1944 and retired the next year. sadly, roderick smith died on 16th april 2002. michael henry bruce snelling afc (born 1941) is a former british fighter pilot, test pilot and airline pilot. he was the pilot that tested the harrier and sea harrier with the ski-jump take-off method in 1977 and 1978, later adopted by the fleet air arm of the royal navy. the testing began on 5 august 1977 with harrier xv281. in august 1978 he became the second person to fly the sea harrier when he took xz450 for its sixth flight at dunsfold. 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[3] doe trained with 15 eandrfts (elementary and reserve flying training school) at raf redhill, surrey and combat training with 6 flying training school at raf little rissington, in gloucestershire. doe was posted on 6 november 1939 to no. 234 squadron, a spitfire squadron at raf leconfield alongside australian pat hughes, who would later become an ace. doe served with no. 234 squadron for most of the battle of britain. doe claimed his first victory on 15 august 1940 when he shot down two messerschmitt bf 110s followed by a messerschmitt bf 109 and a dornier do 18 on 16 august, a bf 109 destroyed (of jg 52) and another bf 109 damaged on 18 august, a half-share of a kg 54 junkers ju 88 on 21 august and a bf 109 shot down on 26 august 1940. in september, he added to his tally with no. 234 squadron with three bf 110s on 4 september, a shared jg 53 bf 109 on 5 september, three damaged dornier do 17s and a bf 109 shot down on 6 september, and a heinkel he 111 destroyed on 7 september. on 27 september 1940 doe was posted to no. 238 squadron, [5] flying hurricanes from raf middle wallop in wiltshire, claiming his first victory for the squadron on 30 september by shooting down a kg 55 he 111. in october, doe shot down a bf 110 on 1 october and a ju 88 on 7 october, the last of his 14 and 2 shared aerial victories of the battle and of the war."},"estimateMax":14,"lotNumber":"490","url":"https://uk.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/chaucerauctions/source/catalog/auction/68063/lot/258941/view","tags":["ukCollectibles_MedalsandMilitaria","ukCollectibles_philately","ukCollectibles","ukCollectibles_all"],"directSalePrice":10,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-25T00:27:02.053Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"£10 - 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