Stock ref: DS3040

Early 1940s

An excellent and unique solid oak relief carved and tooled picture of a Whitley bomber in flight by Robert ‘Mouseman’ Thompson. Features the rare line incised mouse carving to the rear. Enclosed with an email from Robert Thompson’s Craftsmen Ltd confirming it is a genuine Robert Thompson’s made piece.

By repute, commissioned by a Canadian air force squadron flying the Whitley bomber with the RAF in the early 1940s during WW2 and given to the previous owners father by the squadron when they disbanded and returned home to Canada at the end of the war in 1945.

The Armstrong Whitworth AW38 Whitley was a twin engined British medium bomber, designed in 1934 and in service with the RAF at the outbreak of war in 1939. The aircraft played a large part in bombing missions over Germany early in the war before it was superceeded in 1942 by the now more famous four engined heavy bomber, the Avro Lancaster.

Size: 56.5(w) x 3(d) x 23(h)cm

£ 1,775