Buckingham ‘Victoria Cross’ First day cover with PSB Pane, which issued 21 September 2006.

The cover has the these stamps:-

1st VC for Brave Ghurkha- Corporal Agansng Raj

64p Midshipman Wons First VC- Midshipman Charles Lucas

72p Captain Ball Feared Lost- Captain Albert Ball DSO, MC

This is Pane 1.

The cover is postmarked:- 150th Anniversary, The Victoria Cross, Hyde Park, London SW1, 150th Anniversary. Pictorial Victoria Cross in the centre.

This Cover has the genuine hand signed signature of Sir TASKER Watkins.

The reverse of the cover gas a gold label which states:- 125 of these Buckingham VC covers were produced, which feature a VC PSB pane and Hyde Park pmk. Of these, no more than 64 will be signed by Sir Tasker Watkins VC.

This Cover is number 14 of 64.

Sir Tasker Watkins, VC, GBE, PC, QC, DL (1918-2007) was a Lord Justice of Appeal and deputy Lord Chief Justice +. He was president of the Welsh Rugby Union from 1993 2004. In World War II, he was awarded the Victoria Cross. A war hero who was prominent in the law and in rugby union, he was described as ‘The Greatest Living Welshman.’ By now a lieutenant, Watkins departed for France with the rest of the 53rd Division, now commanded by Major General Robert Ross, arriving there in late June 1944, a few weeks after the initial D-Day landings. The division participated in a number of engagements, such as the Second Battle of the Odon, and, in August, the Battle of the Falaise Pocket. By mid August, Watkins, commanding ‘B’ company in his battalion, which had by now been transferred from the 160th Brigade to the 158th Brigade, was one officer in a group leading an assault on a German machine-gun posts. After all the other office were killed in the approach, Watkins continued to lead the group and won his VC for leading a bayonet charge against 50 armed enemy infantry and then single-handedly taking out a machine-gun post to ensure the safety of his unit.

 Reverse of the cover is information about the Victoria Cross. 

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