| Item Code : DHM2711 | Closing the Gap by Robert Taylor. - This Edition | |
| TYPE | EDITION DETAILS | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | YOUR PRICE | PURCHASING | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 350 prints.
| Paper size 35 inches x 25 inches (89cm x 64cm) Image size 28.5 inches x 17 inches (72cm x 43cm) | Beake, Percival H Hodges, Jack Lincoln, John Abe + Artist : Robert Taylor
Signature(s) value alone : £110 | £55 Off! | Now : £210.00 |
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Other editions of this item : | Closing the Gap by Robert Taylor. | DHM2711 |
| TYPE | EDITION DETAILS | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | YOUR PRICE | PURCHASING | ARTIST PROOF | Typhoon edition of 25 artist proofs.
SOLD OUT. | Paper size 35 inches x 25 inches (89cm x 64cm) Image size 28.5 inches x 17 inches (72cm x 43cm) | Wheeler, Frank Stapleton, Basil Oram, Douglas Townsend, Rusty Lewis, C D Kit North Kneen, Kenneth Atkinson, John Beake, Percival H Hodges, Jack Lincoln, John Abe + Artist : Robert Taylor
Signature(s) value alone : £425 | | SOLD OUT | VIEW EDITION... | PRINT | Typhoon edition of 300 prints.
SOLD OUT. | Paper size 35 inches x 25 inches (89cm x 64cm) Image size 28.5 inches x 17 inches (72cm x 43cm) | Wheeler, Frank Stapleton, Basil Oram, Douglas Townsend, Rusty Lewis, C D Kit North Kneen, Kenneth Atkinson, John Beake, Percival H Hodges, Jack Lincoln, John Abe + Artist : Robert Taylor
Signature(s) value alone : £425 | | SOLD OUT | VIEW EDITION... | PRINT | Normandy Veterans edition of 95 prints.
SOLD OUT. | Paper size 35 inches x 25 inches (89cm x 64cm) Image size 28.5 inches x 17 inches (72cm x 43cm) | Rayner, Titch Wheeler, Frank Stapleton, Basil Oram, Douglas Boyle, Peter B Townsend, Rusty Lewis, C D Kit North Kneen, Kenneth Atkinson, John Brown, John Coventry, Alex Dixon, Alex Grantham, Bill Williams, Ray Weedon, Bob Menday, Wally Sherbrook, Tom Beake, Percival H Hodges, Jack Lincoln, John Abe + Artist : Robert Taylor
Signature(s) value alone : £570 | | SOLD OUT | VIEW EDITION... | PRINT | Knights Cross edition of 15 prints.
SOLD OUT. | Paper size 35 inches x 25 inches (89cm x 64cm) Image size 28.5 inches x 17 inches (72cm x 43cm) | Fischer, Gerhard Girg, Walther Kerscher, Albert Kujacinski, Norbert Rayner, Titch Wheeler, Frank Stapleton, Basil Carius, Otto Oram, Douglas Boyle, Peter B Townsend, Rusty Lewis, C D Kit North Kneen, Kenneth Atkinson, John Rudolf, Richard Brown, John Coventry, Alex Dixon, Alex Grantham, Bill Williams, Ray Weedon, Bob Menday, Wally Sherbrook, Tom Beake, Percival H Hodges, Jack Lincoln, John Abe + Artist : Robert Taylor
Signature(s) value alone : £995 | | SOLD OUT | VIEW EDITION... |
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Signatures on this item | *The value given for each signature has been calculated by us based on the historical significance and rarity of the signature. Values of many pilot signatures have risen in recent years and will likely continue to rise as they become more and more rare. | Name | Info |
Squadron Leader Percival H. Beake DFC (deceased) *Signature Value : £25
| Joining the RAFVR in April 1939, Percival Beake was mobilised at the outbreak of war. Posted to 64 Squadron on Spitfires in the summer of 1940 at the height of the Battle of Britain, he flew with them until June 1941 when he was posted first to 92 Squadron at Biggin Hill, and then 601 Squadron at Duxford. After a spell instructing he returned for his second tour in December 1942, joining 193 Squadron as a Flight Commander. In May 1944 he took command of 164 Squadron at Thorney Island flying Typhoons, moving to France shortly after the Normandy Invasion. With two victories to his credit he was awarded the DFC in September 1944.
Starting with 6th August 1944 my log book records that a successful attack was carried out on an enemy strong point in a quarry and that on the following morning I flew home on a very rare 48 hour leave. For a few days after my return we had only one specific target - an enemy dump which we effectively bombarded with rockets on 11th August - so we were deployed on armed reconnaissances. After landing from one of these on 13th August my Wing Commander, Walter Dring, called me to his caravan and said - Beaky, you have just done your last op. You are not to fly again and that is an order, until returning to the UK. I am arranging for your relief as soon as possible. - I was absolutely stunned and my lasting memory of that period is not of carnage but of acute embarrassment at having been grounded. I just hated sending the squadron up without myself leading and remember making frequent calls to the met office hoping to get forecasts of filthy weather that would make operational flying impossible. In the event, my relief, Squadron Leader Ian Waddy, was shot down by flak within two or three days of taking over command, so maybe Wally Dring had some sort of premonition that prompted my grounding. Percival Beake died on 25th June 2016.
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Warrant Officer Jack Hodges DFC *Signature Value : £40
| Jack Hodges joined the RAF in late 1940, and after completing his pilot training in Canada he returned to England and was then briefly sent to a Photo Reconnaissance Unit flying Spitfires. He moved to a OTU in Annan, Scotland on Hurricanes before finally moving to a holding unit in Redhill, flying Typhoons. In 1944 he was posted to join 175 Squadron. Shortly after this he moved to 174 Squadron at Westhampnett. He served on operations throughout occupied Europe until the end of the war, being awarded the DFC in 1945 for successfully leading a group of Typhoons against a German Armoured Division.
| Warrant Officer John Abe Lincoln *Signature Value : £45
| Born in 1923, Abe Lincoln joined the RAF in August 1942, spending two years training in India and Rhodesia. After training he was posted back to the UK, flying first Spitfires and then on Typhoons with 175 Squadron. The squadron was by then heavily involved with softening up targets with rockets ahead of the armies advance and close support duties at the front as the allies advanced through France into Germany. He remained with the squadron until the end of the war.
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The Aircraft : | Name | Info | Typhoon | Single engine fighter with a maximum speed of 412 mph at 19,000 feet and a ceiling of 35,200 feet. range 510 miles. The Typhoon was armed with twelve browning .303inch machine guns in the wings (MK1A) Four 20mm Hispano cannon in wings (MK!B) Two 1000ilb bombs or eight 3-inch rockets under wings. The first proto type flew in February 1940, but due to production problems the first production model flew in May 1941. with The Royal Air Force receiving their first aircraft in September 1941. Due to accidents due to engine problems (Sabre engine) The Hawker Typhoon started front line service in December 1941.The Hawker Typhoon started life in the role of interceptor around the cost of England but soon found its real role as a ground attack aircraft. especially with its 20mm cannon and rockets. This role was proved during the Normandy landings and the period after. The total number of Hawker typhoons built was 3,330. |
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