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  Lieutenant Commander John William Jock Moffat RN (deceased) Died : 2016 *Signature Value : £70 Editions signed : Moffat signature edition of 5 prints from the limited edition of 50 artist proofs. Signature Presentation edition of 5 prints from the limited edition of 50 artist proofs. Moffat signature edition of 300 prints from the signed limited edition of 1150 prints. | Moffat, John William Jock (Lieutenant Commander John William Jock Moffat RN (deceased)) John Moffat was born in Kelso in 1919 and at the outbreak of WWII, was sent to Sydenham, Belfast where a training school, set up by Short Brothers, was based. John learnt to fly in a Miles Magister. During 1939, he was sent to No.1 Flying Training School at Netheravon and here he was taught to fly advanced open-cockpit aircraft such as Hawker Hinds and Audaxes. Commissioned into the RNVR as a sub-lieutenant he was moved to Eastlee (now Southampton Airport) to the Naval Fighter School, learning fighter techniques in Blackburn Skuas and Rocs and the well-known Gloster Gladiator. In 1940, John was moved to Sanderling, the Royal Naval air station at Abbotsinch (now known as Glasgow Airport). In 1941, on board HMS Ark Royal stationed at Gibraltar, they were ordered to assist in the hunt for Bismarck and Prinz Eugen. The aircraft headed first to HMS Sheffield who gave them signals by Aldis Lamp on the position of the Bismarck. John Moffat served on HMS Ark Royal, HMS Argus, HMS Furious and HMS Formidable, and served with 759 Sqn, 818 Sqn, 820 Sqn and 824 Sqn. He died on 11th December 2016. |
  Maschinenobergefreiter Otto Peters (deceased) Died : 2013 *Signature Value : £50 Editions signed : Signature Presentation edition of 5 prints from the limited edition of 50 artist proofs. | Peters, Otto (Maschinenobergefreiter Otto Peters (deceased)) Born 8th May 1919, Otto Peters joined the Kriegsmarine in April 1939. Posted to Bismarck, he was one of the first to join the crew at the Blohm and Voss shipyard in his hometown of Hamburg. As a leading stoker, Otto was on fire-watch when he heard over the tannoy that the Royal Navy had 'undertaken all necessary efforts to sink the Bismarck', and recalls that he knew at once their days were numbered. Otto was picked up after the sinking by the Cruiser HMS Dorsetshire, there were just 115 survivors from the crew of over 2000. Otto Peters died in December 2013. |
  Unteroffizier Heinrich Kuhnt (deceased) Died : 2010 *Signature Value : £45 Editions signed : Signature Presentation edition of 5 prints from the limited edition of 50 artist proofs. | Kuhnt, Heinrich (Unteroffizier Heinrich Kuhnt (deceased)) Born 22nd April 1917, Heinrich joined the cruiser Karlsruhe in July 1937, and served on her until she was put out of action by the submarine HMS Truant in Kristians and Fjord. He was immediately sent to join the Bismarck, serving as a Petty Officer in the turbine room, and with Otto Peters he was picked up by the cruiser HMS Dorsetshire. He remained in captivity until the end of the war. Heinrich Kuhnt was at his battle station, the Portside Turbine Compartment, during Bismarck's final fight on 27th May 1941. Kuhnt participated in the planting of scuttling charges on the cooling water intakes before abandoning the Bismarck. Kuhnt was one one of the 25 sailors rescued by the destroyer, HMS Maori. He was imprisoned in England for almost a year then sent to Canada. He remained there until the end of the war. After the war Heinrich Kuhnt started working for the Max Mueller Company until retiring in 1980. Heinrich Kuhnt sadly died on the 11th of July 2010 in Hannover at the age of 93 years. |
  Matrosengefreiter Willi Treinies (deceased) *Signature Value : £55 Editions signed : Signature Presentation edition of 5 prints from the limited edition of 50 artist proofs. | Treinies, Willi (Matrosengefreiter Willi Treinies (deceased)) Born 9th February 1922, Willi was called up into the Kriegsmarine in 1940. After the training he was posted to join his first, and only ship, the Bismarck, where he served in the ship's 15 cm artillery and ammunition magazine, until she was sunk on 27th May 1941. One of a tiny handful of men from the magazines to survive to survive, Willi spent the remainder of the war as a POW. |
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