This is a specially produced bookplate featuring an original pencil drawing portrait of Battle of Britain fighter pilot Tom Neil DFC. The drawing by Steve Teasdale has been created on sepia recycled card with white pencil highlights. Underneath the drawing is the professionally mounted genuine signature of Tom Neil. This bookplate would enhance any book on the Battle of Britain and especially Tom’s own book ‘Gun Button To Fire’.
Thomas Francis "Ginger" Neil, DFC & Bar, AFC, AE (14 July 1920 – 11 July 2018) was a British aviator, fighter pilot and flying ace in the Royal Air Force. Neil flew during the Battle of Britain, and shot down 14 enemy aircraft during the Second World War.