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Cranston Fine Arts  Aviation Art World War Two Veteran Signatures UK and Commonwealth T  Thorogood, Laurence |
[UP] - Tait, James - Tappin, H - Tapson, Derek - Tatham, Basil - Tattersall, John - Taussig, Kurt - Taylor, Jimmy - Taylor, P - Tempest, Ken - Temple, Julian - Tetlow, Phil - Thom, Alex - Thomas, Harry - Thomas, J - Thomas, Ken - Thompson, Anthony - Thompson, Sam - Thompson, Tommy - Thomson, George - Thomson, Thomas - Thorburn, John - Thorogood, Laurence - Tidy, Douglas - Tilley, F - Tilley, Reade - Todd, Noel - Todd, Richard - Toombs, John - Townsend, Bill - Townsend, Peter - Townsend, Rusty - Trent, Leonard - Trotman, John - Tucker, Arthur - Tuhill, Pat - Tunstall, Fred - Tyack, F - Tyson, Geoffrey |
Squadron Leader Laurence Thorogood DFC AE
Joining 87 Squadron on June 14th 1940, Laurence Thorogood was thrown straight into the Battle of Britain, destroying a Ju88 on 25th August. Commissioned in 1941 he then was posted to India and remained in the Far East until the end of the war. He served with No 9 Sqn Indian Air Force (Hurricane IIc) and 67 Sqn RAF (Spitfire VIII) in the campaign down the Arakan Coast. Staying in the RAF after the war, he served in Singapore and Sumatra with 155 Sqn before converting to Vampires on 130 Sqn, after two years instructing on Oxfords at Middle Wallop, we was Adjutant with 615 Sqn, Biggin Hill before moving to Germany in 1951 to fly Vampires with 118 and 94 Sqns. He served on the Thor missile system before finishing his career as a civilian in Whitehall. Sadly Laurence Thorogood passed away in December 2005. We would like to thank Dr John Thorogood for supplying the photo of his father.
This signature is available as a clipped signature - to be collected or purchased to mount with a suitable print.
You can view or purchase the clipped signature : HERE
For this signature, we recommend the following page(s) to choose prints :
Hurricane Prints
Battle of Britain Prints
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| Distinguished Flying Cross |
| Squadron Leader Laurence Thorogood DFC AE - Signed Aviation Art |
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| Text for the above items : |
Return From Combat by Simon Smith. Two 85 squadron Hurricanes returning to base after a battle over the skies of southern England in the summer of 1940. |
Hurricane Heroes by Nicolas Trudgian. Hurricanes of 87 Squadron return to their West Country base after repelling attacks by Luftwaffe bombers on nearby aircraft factories, August 1940. Flight Lieutenant Ian Gleeds Hurricane, in which he scored 20 victories, leads the Squadron pilots back to base to refuel, re-arm, and get airborne without delay. Published 2000. Signed by three famous Hurricane pilots who fought in the Battle of Britain. These are three fantastic rare signatures to have on one art print and sadly all three have since passed away. |
Tribute to F/Lt Owen Tracey by Ivan Berryman. 79 Sqn Hurricane of F/Lt Owen Tracey trying to get airborne again amid explosions from the attacking German Dorniers on 15th August 1940. |
Clipped Signature - Laurence Thorogood. Joined a combat squadron at the start of the Battle of Britain flying Hurricanes and served in the RAF after the war. He died in 2005. |
Tribute to Flt Lt Ian R Gleed by Ivan Berryman. Flight Lieutenant Ian Widge Gleed is depicted in his personal Hurricane 1 P2798 (LK-A) of 87 Sqn shooting down a Messerschmitt Bf.110 on 15th August 1940. Just visible beneath the cockpit of the Hurricane is his mascot, Figaro, shown kicking a swastika. His aircraft was also easily identifiable by the red flash on its nose, a feature that was retained even when P2798 was painted all black for its night fighter role. Gleed scored many victories before being shot down and killed whilst flying a Spitfire Vc in the Western Desert in April 1943. |
Into the Fray by Richard Taylor. Squadron Leader Douglas Bader leads the Hurricanes of 242 Squadron in an aggressive diving attack upon a large force of Heinkel 111s approaching the Kent coast, whilst Spitfires from 66 Squadron tangle with the escorting Bf109s of JG52. It is September 1940, and the climax of the Battle of Britain. Throughout those critical months in 1940, the RAF engaged opposing pilots of the Luftwaffe time and time again and this atmospheric new painting depicts one such frantic engagement as one of the most legendary fighter Aces of the war, Douglas Bader leads his unit into battle. |
The Greatest Day by Robert Taylor. Sunday 15 September 1940 and Luftwaffe supremo Hermann Goering believed victory over the RAF was at hand. Today, he decreed, would be the day that his 'glorious' Luftwaffe would finally break the back of Fighter Command's stubborn resistance. Or so he believed. In response to a massed formation of enemy aircraft detected heading for London, Air Vice Marshal Keith Park commanding 11 Group scrambled his squadrons. He also requested that 12 Group bring Douglas Bader's 'Big Wing' down from Duxford. Every available pilot and machine was committed. Prime Minister Winston Churchill turned to Park and asked "What other reserves have we" "There are none", Park replied. Bader now had five squadrons racing south, meeting what remained of the enemy on the outskirts of London. With a successful morning behind them the RAF fighters raced back to re-fuel and re-arm. Just after 14.00 hrs another enemy battle group was observed and this time the formations were even larger. Bader's Wing was scrambled once more. |
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