6 Sept 1978
Gibraltar with 9p Gibralttar 60th Anniv
RAF Stamp . Air Cdre West VC Cover. Flown in Nimrod from Gibraltar of 42 Sqn
in a Special Battle of Britain Fly Past. Personally signed Air Cdre Freddie West VC WW1
fighter Ace and Victoria Cross Holder. Won his Victoria Cross as Captain with No 8 Squadron
with the Royal Flying Corps in 1918 in France.Saw Richthofen Aircraft crash
Air Commodore F.M.F.West VC,was one of many who saw
Richthofen crash
. He was returning to his base at Vignacourt ( North of
Amiens) in an Armstrong Whitworth FK8 having picked up a pilot of his squadron,
who had forced landed near Corbie. They then witnessed the last stages of the
air battle and saw a red Fokker DR1 go down and crash on the Morlaincourt
Ridge. Later West landed about 2000 yards from the Wreckage and with difficulty
walked to the wrecked triplane. He was greeted by the Australian soldiers who
told him that the pilot was Baron Von Richthofen, and that he was dead.
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