Bidspirit auction | WW2 Battle of Britain RARE

WW2 Battle of Britain RARE AVM R Saul DFC Piers Kelly signed 1941 Christmas card. Air Vice-Marshal Richard Ernest Saul, CB, DFC (16 April 1891 - 30 November 1965) was a pilot during the First World War and a senior Royal Air Force commander during the Second World War. During the Battle of Britain Richard Saul was commanding the airfields and sector stations in defence of the North of England and Scotland with his No. 13 Group. Alongside his contemporaries Keith Park and Leigh - Mallory he was instrumental in the RAF's defence of Great Britain in 1940. This specially produced bookplate features an original pencil portrait drawing of Richard Saul as he was as a young observer in the Royal Flying Corps. Underneath the drawing by Steve Teasdale is the professionally mounted genuine signature of Richard Saul. We have never come across a Richard Saul signature and consider it to be rarer than Park, Dowding etc as he was killed by a car in 1965.