bentley priory - Spink

September 6, 2012 - LONDON
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- A most comprehensive archive of books, letters, newspapers, magazines, maps,
and journals, many relating to both the Battle of Britain and the Battle of Britain
Memorial Flight
- Portrait drawing of the recipient by Cuthbert Orde, dated 21.1.1945
- The recipient’s Photo album, with photos from both during and after the
Second World War, together with a large collection of official and personal
photographs, including many from his time at RAF Biggin Hill and his
involvement on the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (lot)
£12,000-15,000
D.F.C. London Gazette 30.1.1942 Flying Officer Peter Douglas Thompson (84697), Royal
Air Force Volunteer Reserve, No. 185 Squadron.
The Recommendation states: ‘This officer has been continuously engaged on operational
flying for the past 12 months. He has destroyed at least 6 enemy aircraft, 3 of which he shot
down in the Battle of Britain. Flying Officer Thompson has set an excellent example of
keenness, efficiency and skill.’
M.I.D. London Gazette 8.6.1944 Flight Lieutenant P. D. Thompson, D.F.C. (84697),
R.A.F.V.R.
Group Captain Peter Douglas Thompson, D.F.C., A.E., was born in East Ham,
London, 7.9.1920, and was educated at East Ham Grammar School for Boys. His father
having served with the Royal Flying Corps during the Great War, Thompson decided at the
time of the Munich Crisis in 1938 to enlist in the reserve forces and, ‘with an aversion to
mud and not being a strong swimmer’, decided to join the Royal Air Force Volunteer
Reserve, to which he was called up on the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939.
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