Benham Small cover British Army Stamp Signed 2 VC's holders,J Hackett+ 3

Benham Small cover British Army Stamp Signed 2 VC's holders,J Hackett+ 3 (image 1/1)
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Benham Small cover British Army Stamp Signed 2 VC'sholders,J Hackett+ 3 6 July 1983 BFPS 0350 Special postmark on 16 p British Army Stamp Personally Signed by Personally Signed by 2 Victoria Cross 3 MC, 1 DSO Kenneally VC, Keith Payne VC, General Sir John Hackett G.C.B.,CBE.,D.S.O.,M.C, General Sir Napier Crookenden KCB DSO OBE DL Brigadier Alastair Pearson . CB DSO*** OBE MC, Brigadier S J L Hill DSO**MC. Details below. Lance Corporal John Patrick Kenneally VC Irish Guards.Awarded The VC for gallantry in Tunisia between 28th / 30th April 1943 Warrant Officer Class II Keith Payne VC , Australian Army Training Team. Won VC 24th May 1969 Benhet, South Vietnam.Awarded The VC for gallantry General Sir John Hackett G.C.B.,CBE.,D.S.O.,M.C. when he took part in the disastrous parachute landing on Arnhem in Holland , where the Germans were waiting. On the day before the survivors of the 1st Airborne Division were pulled out of Arnhem , Hackett was severely injured internally by a shell splinter. He was taken to a German military hospital and operated on by a captured Allied surgeon, but was regarded as a hopeless case and marked down for kindly hypodermic euthanasia.On the first day he sat up to eat, a member of the Resistance told him that unless he could walk out in the next 15 minutes, he might not be able to get out at all. He read more
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