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Private Billy Gray - Signed Military Art

Cranston Fine Arts

Military Art and Artists

World War Two

Veteran Signatures

British Veterans

Surnames D to G

Gray, Billy

[UP] - Darling, Sir Kenneth - Davies-Scourfield, Grismond - Deedes, Lord - Dixon, Alex - Drabble, Gordon - Edwards, Mike - Ekins, Joe - Elliott, Cyril - Ervine-Andrews, Harold - Fergusson, J D - Ford, James - Fraser, Stanley - Frost, John - Gibbs, Roland - Gorman, John - Grantham, Bill - Gray, Billy

Private Billy Gray

The first man out of Glider No. 1 into Pegasus Bridge as part of the Coup de Main operation in the early hours of D-Day. He served with 25 Platoon of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.

Out of the Night - The First To Go In by Robert Taylor.
2 of 3 editions available.
All 3 editions feature up to 10 additional signatures.
£95.00 - £135.00

Storming Pegasus Bridge by David Pentland.
4 of 5 editions available.
All 2 editions featuring an additional signature are available.
£2.90 - £220.00

Liberation - Sainte Mere Eglise by Richard Taylor.
One of 5 editions available.
All 5 editions feature up to 11 additional signatures.
£180.00

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Out of the Night - The First To Go In by Robert Taylor.

Silently out of the night they came. With flaps deployed, three timber and plywood Horsa gliders swept swiftly down through the night skies, rapidly closing with their objective - Pegasus Bridge over the Caen Canal. On board, with tension etched deep into their blackened faces, men from the Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, part of the British 6th Airborne Division, braced themselves for landing. They, and sappers from the Royal Engineers, were about to become the first fighting force to land in France on D-Day. They were about to make history.

Storming Pegasus Bridge by David Pentland.

River Orne, D-Day, 6th June 1944. Glider troops of Major John Howards' D Company Ox and Bucks Light Infantry having achieved complete surprise, secured the bridge in a matter of minutes. Ever since it has been known as Pegasus Bridge in honour of the airborne forces winged horse emblem.

Liberation - Sainte Mere Eglise by Richard Taylor.

For nearly four years, the swastika had flown belligerently over the small town of Sainte Mere Eglise in Normandy. Suddenly, shortly after midnight on the night of 5/6th June 1944, parachutists from the 82nd Airborne Division began landing in and around the town. By 04.30, after a tough fire fight, troopers from the 505th PIR had raised another flag over the town - the Stars and Stripes - and Sainte Mere Eglise had become the first town in Normandy to be liberated by the Allies on D-Day. Sherman tanks landing on nearby Utah beach with the US VII Corps were soon passing through the newly liberated town on the way to the front.

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