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1st Day Cover - 2nd Lt. Edmond Thieffry Brussels 1917

1st Day Cover - 2nd Lt. Edmond Thieffry Brussels 1917

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1st Day Cover - 2nd Lt. Edmond Thieffry Brussels 1917
Auction Description

First Day Cover

  over occupied Brussels 24th Jan 1917

 

 

On front handstamp  2 eme Escadille 6388 Florerns 21 – 1 - 1978

The rear is stamped RAF Museum Hendon

 

Stamp . Belgi – Belgique 5 fr. (Mars & Mercure)

 

Condition Excellent

Details of flight : Carried on Mirage 5 BA22  on a simulated ground attack.

Crew & Flight Time included.

Includes insert with detailed history of  Edmond Thieffry 

Who's Who: Edmond Thieffry

Edmond Thieffry (1892-1929) was Belgium's third-highest scoring air ace of the First World War, with his ten victories placing him behind Willy Coppens' 37 and Andre de Meulemeester's 11.

Thieffry, who was born in Etterbeek on 28 September 1892 and worked as a civil lawyer, was prompt in enlisting with the Belgian infantry with the arrival of war in Europe in in 1914.  Unfortunately he was also quickly captured and taken prisoner by the invading German Army.

Nevertheless seizing his opportunity to escape - via a stolen motorcycle - he fled to neutral Netherlands where he was duly interned.  Successfully arguing for his release he returned to Belgium, once again via his stolen German motorcycle.

July 1915 brought Thieffry a transfer to the Belgian Air Service in Etampe.  He made a decidedly inauspicious start, crash-landing more aircraft during training than any other pilot before him.  Such was Thieffry's disastrous record that his officers pronounced themselves reluctant to assign him to a two-seater squadron for fear of the risk to his fellow passenger.

Instead Thieffry was assigned to single-seater aircraft.  Unfortunately his first flight - in a Nieuport Scout - resulted in a crash-landing and, while climbing from the wreckage, he inadvertently set off the aircraft's machine gun, causing some distress to nearby onlookers.

However Thieffry (known as the "The Flying Judge") was by no means the first successful fighter pilot who demonstrated greater skill at fighting than in flying.  Between March and October 1917 he amassed a total of ten 'kills', thus qualifying as an ace.  Brought down in flames in February 1918 he nevertheless survived both the accident and the war.

An early commercial pilot (and co-founder) for Belgian airline Sabena (with whom he flew from Brussels to Leopoldville in 51 days), Thieffry was killed while flying an aircraft in Africa on 11 April 1929.  The recipient of the Belgian Order of Leopold II, he was aged 36 at his death.

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