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Portrait of Pilot Officer Percival Beake, 64 Sqn by David Pritchard - Cranston Military Prints

Portrait of Pilot Officer Percival Beake, 64 Sqn by David Pritchard


Portrait of Pilot Officer Percival Beake, 64 Sqn by David Pritchard

Item Code : PR0004Portrait of Pilot Officer Percival Beake, 64 Sqn by David Pritchard - Editions Available
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Published by Bob Yeoman over 20 years ago, we have a small amount of these prints available from a pilot signed edition of 100. Prints signed by Pilot only, not numbered. Paper size 10.5 inches (26.7cm) x 7 inches (17.8cm)
Beake, Percival H
Died : 2016
Squadron Leader Percival H. Beake DFC (deceased)
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 T
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Squadron Leader Percival H. Beake DFC (deceased)
Died : 2016
*Signature Value : £50

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Published by Bob Yeoman over 20 years ago, we have a small amount of these prints available from a pilot signed edition of 100. Prints signed by Pilot only, not numbered.


Beake, Percival H
(Squadron Leader Percival H. Beake DFC (deceased))

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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