Pikeman of the Kings Life Guard by Chris Collingwood. SIG488

Pikeman of the Kings Life Guard by Chris Collingwood. SIG488DHM672. Pikeman of the Kings Life Guard by Chris Collingwood. Part of a series of seven English Civil War uniform stuies. Open edition prints. Image size 16 inches x 12 inches (41cm x 31cm)

Robert Taylor's stunning painting

Having already made one diving attack into the force of Luftwaffe He111 bombers approaching London with their fighter escort

A Number 1 dress

Gillilands first flight is commemorated in Stan Stokes painting

Flying Officer Harold Corbin CGM

and the wily leadership of the pilots who had survived the early air battles of the war

the legendary Red Baron

but the one depicted here is over the German Ace Alfred Grislawski in his Me109 - a victory that injured Grislawski and meant he took no further combat role in the war

Shropshire Light Infantry by Richard Simkin

showing a party of Lancers bringing a riderless horse back from patrol

Last of the Luck by Ivan Berryman

he survived being shot down no less than sixteen times and survived the war until eventually passing away in 2016 aged 98