Unique FDC. Signed by the "pilot portrayed on the 1½d stamp". Very fine condition.

A piece of history……

……Lieutenant (later to be Captain) R. H. C. (Bob) Kershaw had seen his Flight Commander go down, however, and circled the field to keep off any Italian ground forces that might have tried to capture Jack, and then landed and taxied his Hurricane towards his Flight Commander, shouting to him to jump in. With artillery fire crashing around them, Jack climbed in and flew the Hurricane, sitting on Bob's lap. A most remarkable effort for which Bob was awarded an immediate DSO, the first to be awarded to an officer of the SAAF. His portrait which hangs in the South African National War Museum in Johannesburg, was that from which was printed the famous South African wartime stamp depicting a pilot…….

Union of South Africa.  Large Wars.  The 4d value on FDC, signed by R.H.C Kershaw, the actual pilot whose portrait was used for the 1½d War stamps.  Very fine condition.

Possibly unique item.

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