Pikeman of the Kings Life Guard by Chris Collingwood. SIG488 Gillilands first flight is commemorated

Gillilands first flight is commemorated in Stan Stokes painting

showing a party of Lancers bringing a riderless horse back from patrol

and the wily leadership of the pilots who had survived the early air battles of the war

Having already made one diving attack into the force of Luftwaffe He111 bombers approaching London with their fighter escort

but the one depicted here is over the German Ace Alfred Grislawski in his Me109 - a victory that injured Grislawski and meant he took no further combat role in the war

Pikeman of the Kings Life Guard by Chris Collingwood. SIG488 Gillilands first flight is commemoratedDHM672. Pikeman of the Kings Life Guard by Chris Collingwood. Part of a series of seven English Civil War uniform stuies. Open edition prints. Image size 16 inches x 12 inches (41cm x 31cm)