A 10X8 PHOTO PERSONALLY HAND SIGNED BY WW2 BATTLE OF BRITAIN SPITFIRE PILOT
SQUADRON LEADER GEOFFREY WELLUM DFC
SIGNED AT AN EXCLUSIVE SIGNING AT HIS HOME ON THE 21st FEBRUARY 2016.Aged seventeen, he signed up on a short-service commission with the Royal Air Force in August 1939. The first aircraft he flew was the Tiger Moth at Desford airfield in Leicestershire, after successfully completing the course he then went on to fly the North American Harvard at RAF Little Rissington with 6FTS.He was then posted directly in May 1940 to 92 Sqaudron, flying Spitfires. He saw extensive action during the Battle Of Britain. His first Commanding Officer was Roger Bushall, (later immortalised in The Great Escape) and his close colleagues included Brian Kingcome.He claimed a Heinkel HE 111 shot down on 11 September, and a quarter share in a Junkers JU 88 downed on 27 September 1940. Two (and one shared) Messerschmidt BF 109s were claimed 'damaged' during November 1940. A Bf 109 was claimed shot down on 9 July 1941 over France.
Geoffrey Wellum also wrote a widely acclaimed book about his experiences during World War II, entitled First light: The story of the boy who became a man in the war torn skys of Britain.
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