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Died : 2001

Michael Seamer Allen was born in Croydon, Surrey on March 15th 1925, and educated at Hurstpierpoint College, Sussex. He then studied mechanical engineering at night school before being apprenticed to Fairey Aviation. Mike Allen managed with the help of his father to get Fairey Aviaiton to release him, so that he could join the RAF. Allen joined the RAF as a navigator in June 1941 and two months later was paired with Harry White at No 54 Training Unit, at Church Fenton, Yorkshire. They remained together throughout the war. They both joined No 29, a Beaufighter night squadron at West Malling, in Kent before going to No.534 at Tangmere, Sussex, from where they flew Havoc night fighters (converted Douglas Bostons), each equipped with a Turbinlite searchlight in the nose. The notion was that the Havocs would use their radar to search out enemy aircraft, which would then be picked out with the searchlight and shot down by an accompanying Hurricane. In practice, the scheme was none too successful, but Allen regarded the 15 months that he and White spent in Havocs as invaluable training in the art of night fighting. Allen along with Harry White spent a few months ferrying Beaufighters to the Middle East before Mike Allen and Harry White moved to No.141 Squadron having won two Bars to his DFC 1944. Sadlly around this time his parents were killed when a V2 rocket destroyed their house in July 1944. In January 1945 Allen and White had a close shave while taking off on their 91st operational sortie on a bleak evening in January 1945. The engine of their Mosquito failed as the aircraft left the ground, and the fighter nose-dived into a field. White and Alien found themselves in a heap in the cabin, with Allens foot jammed in the fuselage, White pinned underneath him, and the aircraft on fire, Fortunately, a farmer and two labourers who had seen the crash managed to pull them to safety just as the Mosquito went up in flames. Over the course of their partnerhsip they successfully destroyed at least 12 enemy aircraft. Flt Lt Mike Allen left the Royal Air Force in 1946, and began his civilian career working for Avro, the Manchester-based aircraft company, Pye Telecommunications, BTR and Rank Hovis McDougall. In 1966 he moved to South Africa, where he became chairman of the Pretoria branch of the South African Air Force Association. He returned to Britain in 1982 and worked for the Officers Association. In 1999 Mike Allen published the book Pursuit through Darkened Skies. Flight Lieutenant Mike Allen sadly died at the age of 78 on the 6th of June 2001. Mike Allen had won three DFCs as a navigator and radar operator in night fighters.

Based on many years of experience in dealing with thousands of aviation signatures, we have estimated the value this signature adds to a print as £50


Returning from Caen by Graeme Lothian.


Returning from Caen by Graeme Lothian.

Spitfires from 144 Wing RCAF 2nd TAF led by W/c Johnnie Johnson. Supplying air cover to a mixed force of 942 bombers over Normandy on Operation Goodwood, 18th July 1944. SR-Z of 101 (Special) squadron. Lancasters piloted by Flt Lt George Harris DFC.
Item Code : GL0006Returning from Caen by Graeme Lothian. - Editions Available
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Signed limited edition of 300 prints.
Great value : Value of signatures exceeds price of item!
Image size 24 inches x 15 inches (61cm x 38cm)
Blair, Ian

Died : 2016
Squadron Leader Ian Blair DFM (deceased)
Ian Blair joined 113 Squadron in 1938 as a AC1/Armourer AG. on Hawker Hind and later Blenheim Mk 1s. He took part in the heavy fighting of the first Lybian campaign. He was forced to take control and fly the Blenheim airceaft after his pilot was killed following an attack by an Italian Fiat CR 42. Remarkably he managed not only to evade the enemy aircraft, but fly to fly the Blenheim 350 miles back to his base where he made a succesful textbook landing. This extraordinary action earned him th
Signature Value : £55
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Robillard, Larry

Died : 2006
Flight Lieutenant Larry Robillard DFM CD (deceased)
Born in Ottawa, 17 November 1920, Canadian ace with 8 victories. Sgt. Joseph Guillame Laurent Robillard, During a sweep over the Lille area, less than a month after his first operational flight, Sergeant Robillard, a former member of the Ottawa Flying club, saw a fellow pilot parachuting. Believing it was his commanding officer who had been shot down, Robillard started to protect the descending pilot by escorting him down, but was himself attacked by nine enemy fighters. In the fierce fight
Signature Value : £65
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Harris, George

Died : 2018
Flt Lt George Harris DFC (deceased)
George Harris went to an Operational Training Unit flying old Wellingtons and, on his last flight of the course, a night practice bombing and fighter affiliation trip, suffered an engine fire just after take-off. He came down in darkness in Sherwood Forest and came to in hospital. A wooden propeller had shattered on impact, sheared through the airframe and his seat, taking a slice out of his back and leaving him with several broken ribs, a punctured lung and lacerated kidney. His parents were w
Signature Value : £50
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Kemp, Eric

Flt Lt Eric Kemp DFC (deceased)
Flew with 578 Squadron on Halifaxes
Signature Value : £45
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Lewis, Larry

Died : 2015
Sqd Ldr Larry Lewis DFC DFM (deceased)
Squadron Leader Larry Lewis (born October 25th 1918 in Bristol, died May 12th 2014) earned the DFM as an air gunner before training as a pilot. After picking up air crash survivors from behind Japanese-held lines in Siam, he was awarded the DFC. On May 29th 1945 Japanese fighters shot down a Liberator bomber of 358 Squadron over Siam (Thailand) during a flight to drop supplies and US Special Forces to the 'Seri Thai' (Free Thailand) Resistance movement. Some of the crew and passengers su
Signature Value : £45
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Allen, Mike

Died : 2001
Flt Lt Mike Allen DFC (deceased)
Michael Seamer Allen was born in Croydon, Surrey on March 15th 1925, and educated at Hurstpierpoint College, Sussex. He then studied mechanical engineering at night school before being apprenticed to Fairey Aviation. Mike Allen managed with the help of his father to get Fairey Aviaiton to release him, so that he could join the RAF. Allen joined the RAF as a navigator in June 1941 and two months later was paired with Harry White at No 54 Training Unit, at Church Fenton, Yorkshire. They remai
Signature Value : £50
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Scott, Malcolm

Flt Lt Malcolm Scott DFC
Flew with 180 Squadron on Mitchells 1944 - 1945. Bomber Navigator/ B with 34, 180 ( Bomber Command) and 29 Squadron. He did two tours of operations – 1st M.E.T.O. & F.E.T.O. on Blenheims 36 ops and 2nd E.T.O. on Mitchells and Mosquitos 38 ops. He volunteered in July 1940 ( RAFVR).
Signature Value : £50
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Ward-Hunt, Peter

Died : 2005
Wg Cdr Peter Ward-Hunt DFC (deceased)
Born 6th December 1916. Joined the RAF in July 1937, with No 106 Sqn flying Hampdens, moving to No.49 Sqn at the end of that year. After a period as an instructor, joined No.207 Sqn flying the Manchester. He was selected to convert others to Lancasters in May 1942, and became a flight commander of No 106 Sqn in February 1943. He died 7th December 2005.
Signature Value : £50
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Eyton-Jones, Arthur

Died : 2013
Ft Lt Arthur Eyton-Jones DFC (deceased)
Arthur Eyton-Jones joined the RAF in 1940 and flew over 1,000 hours operationally as a navigator on Bostons, Mitchells and Mosquitoes. He flew on the notoriously dangerous day time bombing offensive conducted by the RAF during the Second World War, during which he survived a ditching in the North Sea. On July 30 1943, Eyton-Jones was the navigator of a Mitchell bomber of No 226 Squadron searching for the crew of an American bomber off the northern Dutch coast. After locating the Americans'
Signature Value : £50
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Austin, Tom

Flight Lieutenant Tom Austin DFC AE
After joining the RAF in 1941 Tom Austin qualified as a pilot on Harvards, then converted into Halifaxes. During the war years other aircraft he flew included Wellingtons, Stirlings and Lancasters. While flying Wellingtons as part of 199 Squadron during a raid over Dortmund, his aircraft was badly damaged but Tom managed to limp home, crash landing at Mildenhall.
Signature Value : £40
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Rutter, Peter
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Ft Lt Peter Rutter
Flew on Whitley Bombers with 51 Squadron.
Signature Value : £40
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+ Artist : Graeme Lothian
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Original painting by Graeme Lothian. Image size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm)Artist : Graeme Lothian£4500.00

Quantity:
Signed limited edition of 300 prints.
Great value : Value of signatures exceeds price of item!
Image size 24 inches x 15 inches (61cm x 38cm)
Blair, Ian

Died : 2016
Squadron Leader Ian Blair DFM (deceased)
Ian Blair joined 113 Squadron in 1938 as a AC1/Armourer AG. on Hawker Hind and later Blenheim Mk 1s. He took part in the heavy fighting of the first Lybian campaign. He was forced to take control and fly the Blenheim airceaft after his pilot was killed following an attack by an Italian Fiat CR 42. Remarkably he managed not only to evade the enemy aircraft, but fly to fly the Blenheim 350 miles back to his base where he made a succesful textbook landing. This extraordinary action earned him th
Signature Value : £55
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Robillard, Larry

Died : 2006
Flight Lieutenant Larry Robillard DFM CD (deceased)
Born in Ottawa, 17 November 1920, Canadian ace with 8 victories. Sgt. Joseph Guillame Laurent Robillard, During a sweep over the Lille area, less than a month after his first operational flight, Sergeant Robillard, a former member of the Ottawa Flying club, saw a fellow pilot parachuting. Believing it was his commanding officer who had been shot down, Robillard started to protect the descending pilot by escorting him down, but was himself attacked by nine enemy fighters. In the fierce fight
Signature Value : £65
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Harris, George

Died : 2018
Flt Lt George Harris DFC (deceased)
George Harris went to an Operational Training Unit flying old Wellingtons and, on his last flight of the course, a night practice bombing and fighter affiliation trip, suffered an engine fire just after take-off. He came down in darkness in Sherwood Forest and came to in hospital. A wooden propeller had shattered on impact, sheared through the airframe and his seat, taking a slice out of his back and leaving him with several broken ribs, a punctured lung and lacerated kidney. His parents were w
Signature Value : £50
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Kemp, Eric

Flt Lt Eric Kemp DFC (deceased)
Flew with 578 Squadron on Halifaxes
Signature Value : £45
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Lewis, Larry

Died : 2015
Sqd Ldr Larry Lewis DFC DFM (deceased)
Squadron Leader Larry Lewis (born October 25th 1918 in Bristol, died May 12th 2014) earned the DFM as an air gunner before training as a pilot. After picking up air crash survivors from behind Japanese-held lines in Siam, he was awarded the DFC. On May 29th 1945 Japanese fighters shot down a Liberator bomber of 358 Squadron over Siam (Thailand) during a flight to drop supplies and US Special Forces to the 'Seri Thai' (Free Thailand) Resistance movement. Some of the crew and passengers su
Signature Value : £45
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Allen, Mike

Died : 2001
Flt Lt Mike Allen DFC (deceased)
Michael Seamer Allen was born in Croydon, Surrey on March 15th 1925, and educated at Hurstpierpoint College, Sussex. He then studied mechanical engineering at night school before being apprenticed to Fairey Aviation. Mike Allen managed with the help of his father to get Fairey Aviaiton to release him, so that he could join the RAF. Allen joined the RAF as a navigator in June 1941 and two months later was paired with Harry White at No 54 Training Unit, at Church Fenton, Yorkshire. They remai
Signature Value : £50
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Scott, Malcolm

Flt Lt Malcolm Scott DFC
Flew with 180 Squadron on Mitchells 1944 - 1945. Bomber Navigator/ B with 34, 180 ( Bomber Command) and 29 Squadron. He did two tours of operations – 1st M.E.T.O. & F.E.T.O. on Blenheims 36 ops and 2nd E.T.O. on Mitchells and Mosquitos 38 ops. He volunteered in July 1940 ( RAFVR).
Signature Value : £50
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE

Ward-Hunt, Peter

Died : 2005
Wg Cdr Peter Ward-Hunt DFC (deceased)
Born 6th December 1916. Joined the RAF in July 1937, with No 106 Sqn flying Hampdens, moving to No.49 Sqn at the end of that year. After a period as an instructor, joined No.207 Sqn flying the Manchester. He was selected to convert others to Lancasters in May 1942, and became a flight commander of No 106 Sqn in February 1943. He died 7th December 2005.
Signature Value : £50
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Eyton-Jones, Arthur

Died : 2013
Ft Lt Arthur Eyton-Jones DFC (deceased)
Arthur Eyton-Jones joined the RAF in 1940 and flew over 1,000 hours operationally as a navigator on Bostons, Mitchells and Mosquitoes. He flew on the notoriously dangerous day time bombing offensive conducted by the RAF during the Second World War, during which he survived a ditching in the North Sea. On July 30 1943, Eyton-Jones was the navigator of a Mitchell bomber of No 226 Squadron searching for the crew of an American bomber off the northern Dutch coast. After locating the Americans'
Signature Value : £50
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Austin, Tom

Flight Lieutenant Tom Austin DFC AE
After joining the RAF in 1941 Tom Austin qualified as a pilot on Harvards, then converted into Halifaxes. During the war years other aircraft he flew included Wellingtons, Stirlings and Lancasters. While flying Wellingtons as part of 199 Squadron during a raid over Dortmund, his aircraft was badly damaged but Tom managed to limp home, crash landing at Mildenhall.
Signature Value : £40
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE

Rutter, Peter
NO
PHOTO
AVAILABLE

Ft Lt Peter Rutter
Flew on Whitley Bombers with 51 Squadron.
Signature Value : £40
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE

+ Artist : Graeme Lothian
£230.00

Quantity:
**Signed limited edition of 300 prints. (One print reduced to clear) Image size 24 inches x 15 inches (61cm x 38cm)
Blair, Ian

Died : 2016
Squadron Leader Ian Blair DFM (deceased)
Ian Blair joined 113 Squadron in 1938 as a AC1/Armourer AG. on Hawker Hind and later Blenheim Mk 1s. He took part in the heavy fighting of the first Lybian campaign. He was forced to take control and fly the Blenheim airceaft after his pilot was killed following an attack by an Italian Fiat CR 42. Remarkably he managed not only to evade the enemy aircraft, but fly to fly the Blenheim 350 miles back to his base where he made a succesful textbook landing. This extraordinary action earned him th
Signature Value : £55
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Robillard, Larry

Died : 2006
Flight Lieutenant Larry Robillard DFM CD (deceased)
Born in Ottawa, 17 November 1920, Canadian ace with 8 victories. Sgt. Joseph Guillame Laurent Robillard, During a sweep over the Lille area, less than a month after his first operational flight, Sergeant Robillard, a former member of the Ottawa Flying club, saw a fellow pilot parachuting. Believing it was his commanding officer who had been shot down, Robillard started to protect the descending pilot by escorting him down, but was himself attacked by nine enemy fighters. In the fierce fight
Signature Value : £65
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Harris, George

Died : 2018
Flt Lt George Harris DFC (deceased)
George Harris went to an Operational Training Unit flying old Wellingtons and, on his last flight of the course, a night practice bombing and fighter affiliation trip, suffered an engine fire just after take-off. He came down in darkness in Sherwood Forest and came to in hospital. A wooden propeller had shattered on impact, sheared through the airframe and his seat, taking a slice out of his back and leaving him with several broken ribs, a punctured lung and lacerated kidney. His parents were w
Signature Value : £50
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Kemp, Eric

Flt Lt Eric Kemp DFC (deceased)
Flew with 578 Squadron on Halifaxes
Signature Value : £45
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Lewis, Larry

Died : 2015
Sqd Ldr Larry Lewis DFC DFM (deceased)
Squadron Leader Larry Lewis (born October 25th 1918 in Bristol, died May 12th 2014) earned the DFM as an air gunner before training as a pilot. After picking up air crash survivors from behind Japanese-held lines in Siam, he was awarded the DFC. On May 29th 1945 Japanese fighters shot down a Liberator bomber of 358 Squadron over Siam (Thailand) during a flight to drop supplies and US Special Forces to the 'Seri Thai' (Free Thailand) Resistance movement. Some of the crew and passengers su
Signature Value : £45
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Allen, Mike

Died : 2001
Flt Lt Mike Allen DFC (deceased)
Michael Seamer Allen was born in Croydon, Surrey on March 15th 1925, and educated at Hurstpierpoint College, Sussex. He then studied mechanical engineering at night school before being apprenticed to Fairey Aviation. Mike Allen managed with the help of his father to get Fairey Aviaiton to release him, so that he could join the RAF. Allen joined the RAF as a navigator in June 1941 and two months later was paired with Harry White at No 54 Training Unit, at Church Fenton, Yorkshire. They remai
Signature Value : £50
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Scott, Malcolm

Flt Lt Malcolm Scott DFC
Flew with 180 Squadron on Mitchells 1944 - 1945. Bomber Navigator/ B with 34, 180 ( Bomber Command) and 29 Squadron. He did two tours of operations – 1st M.E.T.O. & F.E.T.O. on Blenheims 36 ops and 2nd E.T.O. on Mitchells and Mosquitos 38 ops. He volunteered in July 1940 ( RAFVR).
Signature Value : £50
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE

Ward-Hunt, Peter

Died : 2005
Wg Cdr Peter Ward-Hunt DFC (deceased)
Born 6th December 1916. Joined the RAF in July 1937, with No 106 Sqn flying Hampdens, moving to No.49 Sqn at the end of that year. After a period as an instructor, joined No.207 Sqn flying the Manchester. He was selected to convert others to Lancasters in May 1942, and became a flight commander of No 106 Sqn in February 1943. He died 7th December 2005.
Signature Value : £50
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Eyton-Jones, Arthur

Died : 2013
Ft Lt Arthur Eyton-Jones DFC (deceased)
Arthur Eyton-Jones joined the RAF in 1940 and flew over 1,000 hours operationally as a navigator on Bostons, Mitchells and Mosquitoes. He flew on the notoriously dangerous day time bombing offensive conducted by the RAF during the Second World War, during which he survived a ditching in the North Sea. On July 30 1943, Eyton-Jones was the navigator of a Mitchell bomber of No 226 Squadron searching for the crew of an American bomber off the northern Dutch coast. After locating the Americans'
Signature Value : £50
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE
 
Austin, Tom

Flight Lieutenant Tom Austin DFC AE
After joining the RAF in 1941 Tom Austin qualified as a pilot on Harvards, then converted into Halifaxes. During the war years other aircraft he flew included Wellingtons, Stirlings and Lancasters. While flying Wellingtons as part of 199 Squadron during a raid over Dortmund, his aircraft was badly damaged but Tom managed to limp home, crash landing at Mildenhall.
Signature Value : £40
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE

Rutter, Peter
NO
PHOTO
AVAILABLE

Ft Lt Peter Rutter
Flew on Whitley Bombers with 51 Squadron.
Signature Value : £40
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PROFILE

+ Artist : Graeme Lothian
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