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April 12, 2024
RAF 54 SQUADRON COVER SIGNED BY SIR TOM SOPWITH
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1973 RAF Squadron Series Signed by Sir Tom Sopwith Ltd Edition & Flown Cover Signed by :: Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, CBE, Hon FRAeS Cover flown in Sopwith Pup N5180 Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, CBE, Hon FRAeS Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, CBE, Hon FRAeS (18 January 1888 – 27 January 1989) was an English aviation pioneer and yachtsman. Early life Sopwith was born in Kensington, London on 18 January 1888. He was the eighth child and only son of Thomas Sopwith, a civil engineer. He was educated at Cottesmore School in Hove and at Seafield Park engineering college in Hill Head. When he was ten years old, whilst on a family holiday on the Isle of Lismore, near Oban in Scotland, a gun lying across young Thomas's knee went off, killing his father. This accident haunted Sopwith for the rest of his life. In his youth, he was an expert ice skater and played in goal during Princes Ice Hockey Club's 1908 match with C. P. P. Paris and during the 1909–10 season. He also played on the Great Britain national ice hockey team which won the gold medal at the first ever European Championships in 1910. Career in aviation Sopwith became interested in flying after seeing John Moisant flying the first cross-Channel passenger flight. His first flight was with Gustave Blondeau in a Farman at Brooklands. He soon taught himself
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