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Clipped Signature - Lord Harold Balfour of Inchyre. - Cranston Military Prints

Clipped Signature - Lord Harold Balfour of Inchyre.


Clipped Signature - Lord Harold Balfour of Inchyre.

Served with the 60th Rifles in France in 1914 before joining No.60 Sqn Royal Flying Corps. By 1917 he was flying the Sopwith one-and-a-half strutter with No.43 Sqn, claiming two victories. Injured in a crash and awarded the Military Cross, he returned to action claiming 5 victories plus 2 shared in early 1918 and was awarded a Bar to his MC. He was an MP from 1929 and then joined the House of Lords. He died in 1988.

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Item Code : CLP2963Clipped Signature - Lord Harold Balfour of Inchyre. - Editions Available
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Clipped Signature.
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Lord Harold Balfour of Inchyre MC* (deceased)
Born in 1897, he served with the 60th Rifles in France in 1914 before joining the Royal Flying Corps. He initially joined No.60 Squadron but by 1917 was with No.43 Squadron flying the Sopwith one-and-a-half Strutter. He scored two victories in the space of a month in March to April 1917, but moved away from front line flying when he was injured in a crash. He was awarded his first Military Cross in May 1917. Returing to action with No.43 Sqn now equipped with Sopwith Camels, he claimed 5 vic
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The LFG Roland D.VI did not enjoy the success of its contemporaries, the Fokker D.VII and Pfalz D.XII, but was nonetheless a potent and capable fighter. Its unique Klinkerrumpf fuselage construction made it both lightweight and robust although, despite its qualities, it was not built in large numbers. This particular example, a D.VIa, is shown chasing down a damaged Sopwith Camel whilst being flown by Gefreiter Jakob Tischner of Jasta 35b. Tischner later wrote off this aircraft in a landing accident when he rolled into a parked Pfalz D.III, destroying both machines.

Gefreiter Jakob Tischner - Roland D.VIa by Ivan Berryman. 		Lieutenant Leefe-Robinsons BE2C, converted to single-seater night-fighter configuration, destroying the German SL11 over Hertfordshire on the night of 2/3 September, 1916. Robinson attacked the SL11 from below, raking it with incendiary fire, before turning and diving past the airship for another attack. As he did so, the airship exploded into flames and crashed into a field near Cuffley, killing all sixteen crew. For this action, Leefe-Robinson was awarded the VC.

William Leefe-Robinson by Ivan Berryman.		 Swamped by mud amidst a desolate, shattered landscape, men and horses of the Royal Field Artillery drag their 18 pounder field-gun towards a new position on 15 November 1917, during the final days of the Battle of Passchendaele. Whilst the army continues its grim fight on the ground, overhead Sopwith Camels from 45 Squadron Royal Flying Corps tangle in an equally deadly duel with German Albatros fighters of Jasta 6. Flying the lead Sopwith Camel is the RFC Ace, 2nd Lt Kenneth Montgomery who scored the last of his 12 victories in this dogfight when he shot down the German Ace Leutnant Hans Ritter von Adam, the Commanding Officer of Jasta 6 with an impressive 21 victories to his name. To commemorate one of the most significant anniversaries in history, Anthony Saunders has created a powerful painting portraying the bleak sacrifice made by so many heroic young men. The names of the bitter battles they endured, however, still live on a hundred years later - Ypres, the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Arras, Loos - and one of the most savage - Passchendaele.
The Big Push - Passchendaele 1917 by Anthony Saunders. 		Bathed in the low winter sun over southern England, Gotha G.V.s are attacked by defending Sopwith Camels as the German bombers penetrate the south-eastern counties en route to London. This was, effectively, the first Battle of Britain, staged during the winter of 1917/18, during which the intruders were frequently repelled, their bomb loads falling harmlessly on English soil.

Gotha G. V. by Ivan Berryman.
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Lord Harold Balfour of Inchyre MC* (deceased)
Died : 1988
*Signature Value : £85

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Clipped Signature.


Balfour, Harold
(Lord Harold Balfour of Inchyre MC* (deceased))

Born in 1897, he served with the 60th Rifles in France in 1914 before joining the Royal Flying Corps. He initially joined No.60 Squadron but by 1917 was with No.43 Squadron flying the Sopwith one-and-a-half Strutter. He scored two victories in the space of a month in March to April 1917, but moved away from front line flying when he was injured in a crash. He was awarded his first Military Cross in May 1917. Returing to action with No.43 Sqn now equipped with Sopwith Camels, he claimed 5 victories plus 2 shared between 16th February and 12th March 1918. Awarded a Bar to his Military Cross, he then commanded a training school for the next year and retired from the Air Force in 1923. Elected as a Member of Parliament in 1929 until 1945, he the entered the House of Lords as Baron Balfour of Inchyre. He died on 21st September 1988.
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