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WW2 fighter ace MRAF Sir Thomas G Pike signed Kings Cup Air Race flown cover. 15 July 72 BFPS 1289 50th Anniversary of the Kings Cup Air Race. Flown in Robin HR 100 Pilot Neil Jensen. Personally Signed by MRAF Sir Thomas G Pike GCB, CBE, DFC and Bar who flew the Grebe and Siskin in 56 Sqn in 1925. Pike served in the WW11 initially on the air staff within the Directorate of Organisation at the Air Ministry, promoted to the temporary rank of Wg Cdr March 1940 (made permanent in April 1942). He was appointed Officer Commanding No 219 Sqn flying Bristol Beaufighters from RAF Tangmere in February 1941 and was awarded the DFC on 13 May 1941 for showing great skill in intercepting enemy aircraft at night, destroying a raiding aircraft on his first night patrol. He was awarded a bar to the Distinguished Flying Cross on 30 May 1941 for engaging attackers at night when the aerodrome was illuminated by the glare from a large number of incendiary bombs. AOC 11Gp. AOC in C fighter Command, Chief of Air Staff, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe. Was President RAF Assn. Died 1983. Only 50 were signed