| Item Code : DHM0576D | Can Openers by David Pentland. (D) - This Edition | Buy 1 Get 1 Half Price! |
| TYPE | EDITION DETAILS | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | YOUR PRICE | PURCHASING | PRINT | Morewood signature edition of 100 prints from the signed limited edition of 1000 prints.
| Image size 17 inches x 12 inches (43cm x 31cm) | Morewood, Roger + Artist : David Pentland
Signature(s) value alone : £45 | £40 Off! | Now : £90.00 |
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Other editions of this item : | Can Openers by David Pentland. | DHM0576 |
| TYPE | EDITION DETAILS | SIZE | SIGNATURES | OFFERS | YOUR PRICE | PURCHASING | PRINT | Signed limited edition of 1000 prints. | Image size 17 inches x 12 inches (43cm x 31cm) | Artist : David Pentland | £20 Off! | Now : £60.00 | VIEW EDITION... | ARTIST PROOF | Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. | Image size 17 inches x 12 inches (43cm x 31cm) | Artist : David Pentland | £15 Off! | Now : £85.00 | VIEW EDITION... | ARTIST PROOF | RAF signature edition of 20 prints from the limited edition of 50 artist proofs. | Image size 17 inches x 12 inches (43cm x 31cm) | Millard, Jocelyn G P + Artist : David Pentland
Signature(s) value alone : £45 | £40 Off! | Now : £100.00 | VIEW EDITION... | PRESENTATION | Townsend Presentation Edittion of 5 Artist Proofs. | Image size 17 inches x 12 inches (43cm x 31cm) | Townsend, Peter (clipped) Wilkinson, Ken Duckenfield, Byron + Artist : David Pentland
Signature(s) value alone : £180 | | £380.00 | VIEW EDITION... | PRINT | RAF signature edition of 80 prints from the signed limited edition of 1000 prints. | Image size 17 inches x 12 inches (43cm x 31cm) | Millard, Jocelyn G P + Artist : David Pentland
Signature(s) value alone : £45 | £40 Off! | Now : £80.00 | VIEW EDITION... | PRINT | Duckenfield signature edition of 150 prints from the limited edition of 1000 prints. | Image size 17 inches x 12 inches (43cm x 31cm) | Duckenfield, Byron + Artist : David Pentland
Signature(s) value alone : £50 | £60 Off! | Now : £80.00 | VIEW EDITION... | PRINT | Duckenfield / Wilkinson signature edition of 100 prints from the signed limited edition of 1000 prints. | Image size 17 inches x 12 inches (43cm x 31cm) | Wilkinson, Ken Duckenfield, Byron + Artist : David Pentland
Signature(s) value alone : £90 | £40 Off! | Now : £100.00 | VIEW EDITION... | ORIGINAL PAINTING | Original painting by David Pentland. | Image size 182 x 12 inches (46cm x 31cm) | Artist : David Pentland | | £1500.00 | VIEW EDITION... | POSTCARD | Collector's Postcard - Restricted Initial Print Run of 100 cards. | Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm) | none | | £2.70 | VIEW EDITION... |
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Signatures on this item | *The value given for each signature has been calculated by us based on the historical significance and rarity of the signature. Values of many pilot signatures have risen in recent years and will likely continue to rise as they become more and more rare. | Name | Info |
Wing Commander Roger Morewood (deceased) *Signature Value : £45
| An uncle suggested to Roger Morewood that he should join the RAF so Roger did at the age of 17. Roger said : I was going be a pilot, that was the only reason to join. Roger trained to fly in a Tiger Moth biplane before joining 56 Squadron - regarded within the RAF as an elite unit - flying open cockpit Gauntlet fighters. The squadron were then re-equipped with Gloster Gladiators - the last RAF biplane - then the Hawker Hurricanes that would join Spitfires in fighting off Hitlers Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. While serving with 56 Squadron Roger Morewood was assigned the dangerous role of long-range fighter sweeps over the coast of occupied France and Holland but left to help form 248 Sqn at Hendon with whom he served throughout the Battle of Britain flying Blenheims. Roger said: We had a few panic station alerts when we were scrambled. We wouldd be leaping into our aircraft with flying suits over our pyjamas as we tried to get into the air in a minute and a half. In July 1942 Morewood went to 9 OTU and later HQ Transport Command. After a long post-war career in the RAF he retired in 1957. Roger Morewood once said of his squadron: It was damned dodgy. We had a high loss rate on operations. And on one sortie - then aged 21 - he nearly met his maker : I flew across to Den Helder (Northern Holland) in a long-nosed Blenheim to look after this battleship at the entrance to the Zuiderzee. We flew round this thing and sure enough I saw some aircraft coming up. They were twin-engine bombers naturally - Messerschmitt 110s. That was a bit hairy. My two blokes (other pilots) shoved off in a hurry into a cloud, and there was me popping away until I ran out of ammunition. There was just me left. I realised there was no point chasing - I was not going to knock his wings off. So I started flying home. After making hardly any noise all flight the chap (navigator) in the back said you haveve got somebody on your tail now - you had better move swiftly. So I moved to left and right. We got a pretty hefty clobbering. His turret disappeared at the back. My poor navigator wore a tin hat and I dont blame him. He got a bullet half way through his armour. He was alright. I had a dreadful wound. If I shook my hand really hard I could get blood out of one finger. I was hit all over the place. We took dozens of bullets. The aircraft was ruined. That is all there was to it. We were still going home - even with the North Sea to go across. So I trundled off back and ditched the damn thing. Thank God it didnt blow up. We literally got away with it. It was the hairiest trip I ever did. On another occasion, Roger intercepted a German weather forecasting flying boat called Weary Willy : I was in a Beaufighter at this time. I flew upwind and had a shot at him downwind. Then all the guns jammed. So I pulled alongside him - not too close - and waved him good luck lad. Anyway he sank when he got back to Norway. That was that one finished. Flying from Shetland, his squadron attacked German shipping off Norway. Roger was rested and spent two years training new Beaufighter pilots but still managed to go on some operations, mainly attacking convoys off the coast of Holland. Roger Morewood said: job was to attack the flak ships, floating anti-aircraft batteries, so other Beaufighters could attack the cargo ships. It could be pretty hairy as 12 Beaufighters lined up to have a crack at the target. You wouldd see tracer shells from your mates plane whizzing over your head or underneath you. They were a bigger danger than the Germans Wing Commander Roger Morwood was posted to the Mediterranean where he contracted TB. He recalled: "In hospital, they treated you with whisky in milk and a pint of Guinness for breakfast, very primitive stuff." When the war ended and the RAF were scaled down, Roger continued to serve in various postings around the UK until 1947. after leaving the RAF Roger was recalled again as an instructor at the Central Flying School, but with the rank of flight lieutenant. He was posted to Edinburgh and then Glasgow University squadrons. finnaly leaving service in 1957. Wing Commander Roger Morewood notched up more than 5000 flying hours in 32 different types of aircraft. Roger Morewood died in early December 2014. |
The Aircraft : | Name | Info | Hurricane | Royal Air Force Fighter, the Hawker Hurricane had a top speed of 320mph, at 18,200 feet and 340mph at 17,500, ceiling of 34,200 and a range of 935 miles. The Hurricane was armed with eight fixed wing mounted .303 browning machine guns in the Mark I and twelve .303 browning's in the MKIIB in the Hurricane MKIIC it had four 20mm cannon. All time classic fighter the Hurricane was designed in 1933-1934, the first prototype flew in June 1936 and a contract for 600 for the Royal Air Force was placed. The first production model flew ion the 12th October 1937 and 111 squadron of the Royal Air Force received the first Hurricanes in January 1938. By the outbreak of World war two the Royal Air Force had 18 operational squadrons of Hurricanes. During the Battle of Britain a total of 1715 Hurricanes took part, (which was more than the rest of the aircraft of the Royal air force put together) and almost 75% of the Victories during the Battle of Britain went to hurricane pilots. The Hawker Hurricane was used in all theatres during World war two, and in many roles. in total 14,533 Hurricanes were built. |
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