Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Sir Douglas Robert Stewart Bader NPG x171927

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Bassano Ltd

Aviator. Despite losing both legs in a flying accident in 1931 Bader rejoined the RAF in 1939 and played a part in victory in the Battle of Britain (1940). Shot down in August 1941 and held as a prisoner of war at Colditz until 1945. In a letter to the photographer Bader wrote 'I was lucky in the war, and got much publicity not because I was any better than the others but because I was the chap with the tin legs...'. Knighted in 1976... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.