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"Flying Ace" Arthur Coningham Hand Written Envelope Dated 1943 COA:
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Up for sale a VERY RARE! "Flying Ace" Arthur Coningham Hand Written Envelope Dated 1943. This item is certified authentic by JG

Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.

ES-4301

Air Marshal Sir Arthur "Mary" January 1895 – presumably 30 January

1948) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force. During the First World War, he was at Gallipoli with

the New Zealand Expeditionary

Force, was discharged in New Zealand as medically unfit for active

service, and journeyed to Britain at his own expense to join the Royal Flying Corps, where

he became a flying ace. Coningham was

later a senior Royal Air Force commander during the Second World War, as Air Officer

Commanding-in-Chief 2nd Tactical Air Force and

subsequently the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Flying Training Command.

Coningham is chiefly remembered as the person most responsible for the

development of forward air control parties

directing close air support, which

he developed as commander of the Western Desert Air Force between

1941 and 1943, and as commander of the tactical air forces in the Normandy campaign in

1944. However he is frequently lauded as the "architect of modern air

power doctrine regarding tactical air operations," based on three

principles: necessity of air superiority as first priority, centralised command

of air operations co-equal with ground leadership, and innovative tactics in

support of ground operations.

30 January 1948, he disappeared along with all the other passengers and crew of

the airliner G-AHNP Star Tiger when

it vanished without a trace somewhere

off the eastern coast of the United States in the Bermuda Triangle. Coningham was born in Brisbane, Queensland, on 19 January 1895. His early life was one that made

him learn to be adaptable. His father, also Arthur Coningham,

was noted for playing Test cricket, but was by

disposition a con man who was exposed in court for fabricating legal evidence

in a trial designed to extort a Catholic priest, Denis Francis O'Haran,

secretary to the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney. The resulting scandal drove the

older Arthur Coningham to remove the Coningham family to New Zealand while

Coningham was still young. The change of scene to New Zealand did not

change the father's modus operandi; he spent six months imprisoned there resilient enough and sufficiently motivated to win a scholarship to Wellington College.

Although Coningham had won a scholarship, he was not an academic star. However,

he was athletic and an outdoorsman, with expertise in horsemanship and divorced when he was seventeen; grounds were his father's infidelity.

Arthur Coningham was maturely assured enough to remark, "Look here,

Coningham, you may be my father, but I am ashamed of you." The comment

reflects Coningham's persona; he was abstemious by nature, being a non-smoker,

near teetotaler and impatient with obscene

language.