Military Scrapbooks: Family History five albums charting th...

Hammer

£500

Military Scrapbooks:

Family History five albums charting the history of the family and RAF and NATO career of Air Commodore Charles H. Simpson and the Hill-Lowe family from 1820-1988. The first book includes Communion documents, birth, marriage and death certificates, LAMDA certificates, Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society certificates, family trees, service photographs, family and event photographs, the first volume relates to the period 1945-58 appointment as Air Attache to Sweden. Photographs, documents of their time in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Ascot Royal Enclosure tags, service and family photographs, invitations, programmes, menus, etc. The second volume shows life as Senior RAF Officer in East Africa 1958-1961 and includes documents relating to the visit of Mountbatten of Burma with signed personal letters, signed letters from Air Vice Marshal David Lee, Major General Richard Goodwin, letter of Investiture C.B.E, Certificate for the Order of the British Empire bearing the signatures of Elizabeth R and Philip. Volume three 1961 -71 covers their time in Europe after retirement from the RAF and includes Royal Ascot Royal Enclosure, Royal Yacht squadron passes, signed letter Mountbatten of Burma, invites, menus, Order of the Garter procession programmes and tickets, letter ion 10 Downing Street notepaper signed by Edward Heath, personal and official photographs and travel tickets. Volume four 1972-88 includes invites, Members Enclosure tags, Ascot Royal Windsor Buckingham Palace afternoon party invitation, various letters signed Peter Vennick MEP, Duke of Atholl, QEII and Concorde tickets and memorabilia, plus a signed letter and notes from Margaret Thatcher on House of Commons notepaper.