RAF Battle of Britain pilot FOPP AFC signed photo

Each photo measures 5" by 7" with a white border on all sides with the signature handsigned on the specially elongated bottom margin.
The photograph is from the 1939-1945 period and has been reproduced and then signed by (BB)31 - Squadron Leader Desmond Fopp AFC. The photo is accompanied by a brief career history.
This signed photo forms part of a limited edition Battle of Britain signed Photograph Series. This is number 32 in the series of 50 Photographs, produced by ourselves. Each photograph has been handsigned and they are all numbered and certified on the reverse. Each photograph is a limited edition of 200.   
  
 
Squadron Leader Desmond Fopp AFC
Fighter Command Battle of Britain Hurricane Pilot

Born at Cuddly Creek, South Australia on March 13 1920, Fopp was the son of a first generation Australian of German extraction. His father served in the Australian Army, married an English lady and took her back with him. In 1936, after his father’s death, Fopp and his mother returned to Britain.
In November 1938 he joined the RAFVR as an Airman u/t Pilot (742588) and was called up at the outbreak of war. He completed his flying training at 2 FTS, Brize Norton, converted to Hurricanes at 6 OTU, Sutton Bridge and joined 17 Squadron at Debden on May 24 1940, operating with it in France in June.
On July 12 Fopp shared in the destruction of a He 111, shot down into the sea, and on September 3, after damaging a Do 17, he was himself shot down in flames by a Bf 110. Fopp baled out, burned, and landed at Pressey's Farm, Hutton. His Hurricane, P 3673, crashed and burned out near Handley’s Dairy Farm, Ingrave, Essex.
After three months in hospital, Fopp was posted to 3 School of General Reconnaissance, Blackpool, as a staff pilot. He rejoined 17 Squadron, then at Elgin, in July 1941. Commissioned in early November, Fopp joined 132 Squadron at Peterhead. He was appointed ‘A’ Plight Commander in May 1942, received a Mention in Despatches (1.1.43) and remained with the squadron until the end of 1943, when he went as Fighter Tactics Liaison Officer to the 8th and 9th USAF.
In May 1944 Fopp was posted to CFS, Upavon for an instructor’s course on Oxfords, after which he went to an AFU at Wrexham. He was awarded the AFC (29.9.44) for getting an aircraft down safely after a mid-air collision. In August 1945 Fopp moved to 12 FTS, Grantham, to instruct on Harvards.
Fopp stayed on in the RAF unti11950, when he left to become a civilian instructor training naval pilots on Mosquitos. He rejoined the RAF in March 1951 and held a series of appointments, latterly concerned with helicopters, prior to retiring on March 13 1975, as a Squadron Leader.

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