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Cranston Fine Arts  Clipped Veteran Signatures  Victoria Cross Recipients |
[UP] - Battle of Britain - Allied Pilots - Battle of Britain - Axis Pilots - Victoria Cross Recipients - World War One - Test Pilots - Bomber Command - Dambusters - US Airborne - Bismarck - U-Boats - Colditz |
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Clipped Signature - Patrick Porteous VC. Attached to 4 Commando from the Royal Regiment of Artillery, he was awarded the Victoria Cross in the assault on Dieppe in 1942. Despite being shot in the arm, he saved one Sergeant before rallying and leading his men under heavy fire. Seriously wounded a second time, he collapsed after the German position was taken. He retired as Colonel in 1970 and died in 2000. Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures. |
Clipped Signature - Sir Hughie Edwards VC. Commissioned in the RAF in 1936 flying Hind bombers with No.15 Sqn, he transferred to No.60 Sqn flying Blenheims - a crash hospitalised him for nine months. Commanding No.105 Sqn, he was awarded the Victoria Cross for a low-level attack on the dock area of Bremen in July 1941, where few aircraft returned unscathed. He remained in the RAF, retiring in 1963. He died in 1982. Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures. |
Clipped Signature - Eric Wilson. A Captain of the East Surrey Regiment attached to the Somali Mounted Infantry, he defended a hill position from heavy Italian forces for five days despite malaria and injuries, until it was over run. Reported killed, he was awarded the Victoria Cross - in fact he had been captured and imprisoned. He died in 2008. Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures. |
Clipped Signature - Harold Ervine-Andrews VC. A Captain in the East Lancashire Regiment, he and his men were hugely outnumbered near Dunkirk on 31st May / 1st June 1940. Taking to the roof of a barn, he accounted for 17 of the enemy with his own rifle. With the barn crumbling under heavy enemy fire, he got the wounded away and led the other eight volunteers to safety. For this he was awarded the Victoria Cross. He died in 1995. Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures. |
Clipped Signature - Roderick Learoyd VC. Flying Hampden bombers with No.49 Sqn, on the night of 12th August 1940, he attacked with four other aircraft the heavily defended Dortmund-Ems canal. Two aircraft were destroyed and another two badly hit. Learoyd bravely attacked the target through searchlights and heavy flak and though badly damaged, he got the aircraft and crew home safely, earning the Victoria Cross. He died in 1996. Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures. |
Clipped Signature - Jack Hinton VC. A New Zealander, he was serving in Greece in 1940 as it was being evacuated by Allied troops and disobeyed orders to gather 12 compatriots to attack the Germans in Kalamata. He killed the crew of a gun, and cleared out several other enemy positions with grenades before falling wounded and being captured. For this he was awarded the Victoria Cross. He died in 1997. Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures. |
Clipped Signature - Edward Kenna VC. Serving in the Citizen Military Forces in Australia from 1940, he was posted to New Guinea in 1944. On 15th May 1945 he single-handedly attacked a machine gun bunker with his Bren gun and a rifle while exposed to the enemy fire, earning the Victoria Cross. He died in 2009. Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures. |
Clipped Signature - John Cruickshank. Transferred to the RAF in 1941 and joined No.210 Sqn as a captain of a Catalina flying boat. On a patrol in 1944, his crew spotted and attacked a surfaced U-Boat, an action during which the aircraft was damaged and the crew suffered casualties. John Cruickshank got his aircraft back to base and for this action he was awarded the Victoria Cross. |
Clipped Signature - Ian Fraser. Joined the Royal Naval Reserve in 1939 and served on destroyers and submarines before taking command of midget submarine XE-3. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for taking this craft through heavily mined waters to successfully attack the Japanese cruiser Takao. Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures. |
Clipped Signature - Thomas Gould. Tommy Gould was awarded his Victoria Cross together with another of the crew of HMS Thrasher for crawling through 20ft of casing with an unexploded bomb to dispose of it, at great danger from both the bomb and drowning should the sub have to dive. He died in 2001. |
Clipped Signature - Norman Jackson VC. Flying Lancasters with No.106 Sqn, he earned his Victoria Cross on his 30th mission when the bomber was set on fire by an enemy night-fighter. Injured, he climbed on to the wing and put the fire out just as a second attack came in. The crew baled out but with his parachute beginning to burn, Jackson miraculously survived falling from the aircraft to spend many months as a PoW in a German hospital. He died in 1994. |
Clipped Signature - Richard Annand VC. Serving with the Durham Light Infantry during the invasion of Belgium in 1940, he attacked with grenades two parties of Germans attempting to repair a blown bridge, despite machine gun and mortar fire. Later, he returned to the position to rescue a wounded Private and was himself wounded and lost consciousness. For this act he was awarded the first Victoria Cross of World War Two for the British Army. He died in 2004. Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures. |
Clipped Signaure - John Kenneally VC. Joined the Army at 18 and by 1943 was in the Irish Guards, serving in Tunisia. On 28th April he single-handedly charged the enemy, breaking up their attack. Two days later, this time with a comrade, he repeated the act, inflicting many casualties despite being wounded himself. For these heroic actions he was awarded the Victoria Cross. He died in 2000. Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures. |
Clipped Signature - Bill Reid VC. Became a pilot on Wellingtons then Lancasters in 1943, earning his Victoria Cross when his Lancaster was attacked by night-fighters. His navigator and radio operator were killed and Reid himself badly injured, but he flew on 200 miles to accurately drop his bombs before getting his aircraft home with help from his remaining crew. He died in 2001. |
Clipped Signature - Ferdinand West VC. Transferred to the Royal Flying Corps in 1916, and in 1918 was with No.8 Sqn flying the Armstrong Whitworth FK8 when he was awarded his Victoria Cross. He discovered the location of the German ground reserves and crucially got the information back to the Army, despite suffering a severe leg wound from enemy fighters. He remained in the RAF until the end of World War Two. He died in 1988. Please note that this particular signature has been written in pen - not in pencil like most of our signatures. |
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