Michael Gow First Arakan Campaign WW2 Scottish Guards Hand Signed FDC

STB031 This is stunning collectors official limited First Arakan Campaign first day cover hand signed by Michael Gow where the signature rests perfectly accompanying the special hand commemorative franks.  This comes with full lifetime COA as the signing has been officially certified by the publishers with full hallmarking and authenticity of the series further detailed in absolute brand new mint condition. You wont source better.

General Sir James Michael Gow, GCB (3 June 1924 26 March 2013) was a senior British Army officer who served in the Second World War and reached high office in the 1980s, commanding the British Army of the Rhine.

Gow volunteered for the British Army and enlisted into the Scots Guards in 1942. While at Caterham Barracks, the Scots Guards regimental depot, he was informed by his drill sergeant that he resembled a bag of manure tied up with pink string. However, he was soon commissioned as a second lieutenant on 5 June 1943, shortly after his nineteenth birthday. He served with the regiment's 3rd (Tank) Battalion, then part of the 6th Guards Tank Brigade. Serving in the campaign in Northwest Europe, including during the Battle of Normandy, Gow, after being injured in Belgium in October and taking six months to recover, was one of the first British officers into the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, shortly before Victory in Europe Day in May.