C87d Royal Star and Garter Home Signed Simon? Weston ( Falklands War) L Piggott and ?Richard Jones??Battle of ...

C87d Royal Star and Garter Home Signed Simon? Weston ( Falklands War) L Piggott and ?Richard Jones??Battle of Britain? pilot t23rd June 1981 BFPS 1748??The Royal Star and Garter Home Special Postmark. The Royal Star and Garter Home for disabled Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen. Taxi Outing and Solo Wheelchair Sortie to Worthing 23 June 1981. Blue ?flown cachet Flown from Headquarters? British Forces Post Office to The Royal Star and Garter? Home, Richmond Upon Thames in Westland Whirlwind. Then carried by Taxi? from Richmond Park to Worthing? where her ?Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent? who took the salute from the members of the Royal Star and Garter Home.?Then added red Cachet John O Groats to?Lands?End?Carried alongside Charlie Hankins on his Eric?Self propelled?Drive? John O'Groats, Inverness, Perth, Edinburgh, Carlise, Kendal, Morecambe, Blackpool, Southport, Liverpool, Shrewsbury, Ludlow, Hereford, Cheltenham, Bath, Taunton, Exeter, Torquay, Paignton, Plymouth, Truro, Penzance - Land's End. Personally Signed by? Simon Weston?OBE is a veteran of the British Army who became well known throughout the United Kingdom for his recovery and charity work after suffering?severe burn injuries during the Falklands?War. On?9 June 1982, he was boarded with other members of his regiment on RFA Sir Galahad in Port Pleasant near Fitzroy, just off the Falkland Islands. It was bombed and set on fire by the Argentine Skyhawk fighters during the Bluff Cove Air Attacks. His ship was carrying ammunition as well as phosphoric bombs and thousands of gallons of diesel and petrol, Out of his platoon of 30 men, 22 were killed. The Welsh Guards lost a total of 48 men killed and?97 wounded aboard the Sir Galahad. Weston survived with 46% burns, following which his face was barely recognizable:? Also Signed by?Lester Piggott?Famous Jockey. Lester Piggott was the greatest? English jockey of all time. He rode his first winner at age 12 in 1948, was a champion jockey in England 11 times and won the nation's most prestigious flat race, the Derby, a record nine times between 1954 and 1983. Some of? the horses he rode to victory include legends of the Turf such as Nijinsky, Sir Ivor, The Minstrel and Roberto. He retired in 1995, aged 59. He was jailed in 1985 for a year for failing to accurately declare tax on his earnings. The scandal meant that the honour bestowed on him by Queen Elizabeth II in 1975, the Order of the British Empire (OBE), was taken away. Without the jail sentence and tax fraud investigation, he almost certainly would have become Sir Lester Piggott Richard Jones??Battle of Britain? pilot 64 and 19 Sqn's?.Certified Copy No?530?of 530. Signed?Gp?Capt?W S O Randle WW11 Wellington Pilot.?Good condition Est.