Pete Brothers Died : 18 / 12 / 2008

Air Commodore Peter Brothers CBE, DSO, DFC* (deceased) Learnt to fly at the age of 16 and joined the RAF two years later in 1936. He first saw action in 1940 when as a Flight Commander in 32 Squadron, based at Biggin Hill, he flew his Hurricane against the fighters and bombers of the Luftwaffe. He recalls this as an intensely busy period, during which he shot down an Me109 - his first enemy aircraft; by the end of August that same year his tally of enemy aircraft shot down increased to eight. Awarded the DFC, he was transferred to 257 Squadron where he joined Bob-Stanford Tuck as a Flight Commander. Promoted in 1941 to Squadron Leader, Pete Brothers then took command of 457 Squadron RAAF, equipped with Spitfires. A year later when 457 Squadron returned to Australia, Pete took command of 602 Squadron. In the early autumn of 1942 he went on to become Wing Leader of the Tangmere Wing, succeeding his old friend, Douglas Bader. By the end of the war Pete Brothers had amassed 875 operational hours over a 44-month period. He was credited with having personally shot down 16 enemy aircraft and damaged many more. He later went on to command 57 Squadron during the Malaya campaign. Upon return to the UK Pete Brothers joined the V-Force, flying Valiant-4 jet bombers. He retired in 1973. Sadly, Pete Brothers died 18th December 2008.

Latest Air Commodore Peter Brothers CBE, DSO, DFC* (deceased) Signed Artwork Releases !
A Call to Arms by David Pentland. (P)	Enemy Approaching by David Pentland. (P)	Those Valiant Few by Robert Taylor.	Normandy Veterans Association 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Print by Michael Turner.

Items Signed by Air Commodore Peter Brothers CBE, DSO, DFC* (deceased)

	Clipped Signature - Peter Brothers. Price : £50.00	An RAF Ace who scored victories flying Hurricanes with No.32 Sqn during the Battle of Britain. He later commanded No.457 Sqn RAAF, No.602 Sqn and No.57 Sqn, and was credited with 16 victories by the end of the war. He died in 2008.......
	Clipped Signature - Peter Brothers. (B) Price : £55.00	An RAF Ace who scored victories flying Hurricanes with No.32 Sqn during the Battle of Britain. He later commanded No.457 Sqn RAAF, No.602 Sqn and No.57 Sqn, and was credited with 16 victories by the end of the war. He died in 2008. ......
	Combat Over Normandy by Graeme Lothian. Price : £160.00	Spitfires of R.C.A.F 144 Wing led by Wing Commander Johnson in combat with ME109s of JG3 over Arromanches, France June 1944. ......
	Fighting Lady by Graeme Lothian (B) Price : £480.00	A solo Spitfire on patrol off the coast of Dover during the Battle of Britain.......
	Those Valiant Few by Robert Taylor. SOLD OUT	The Battle of Britain commenced at the beginning of June 1940, and for the next two and a half gruelling months the young men of Royal Air Force Fighter Command, duelled with the cream of Goerings Luftwaffe over the skies of southern England. It wa......	NOT AVAILABLE

	Those Valiant Few by Robert Taylor. (AP) SOLD OUT	The Battle of Britain commenced at the beginning of June 1940, and for the next two and a half gruelling months the young men of Royal Air Force Fighter Command, duelled with the cream of Goerings Luftwaffe over the skies of southern England. It wa......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Those Valiant Few by Robert Taylor. (B) SOLD OUT	The Battle of Britain commenced at the beginning of June 1940, and for the next two and a half gruelling months the young men of Royal Air Force Fighter Command, duelled with the cream of Goerings Luftwaffe over the skies of southern England. It wa......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Summer of 44 by Nicolas Trudgian. Price : £160.00	As the Allied invasion of northern France drew nearer, the entire length of southern England had seemingly become one huge army camp. While the local population went about its daily business as best it could, British and American troops massed at ev......
	Summer of 44 by Nicolas Trudgian (AP) Price : £200.00	As the Allied invasion of northern France drew nearer, the entire length of southern England had seemingly become one huge army camp. While the local population went about its daily business as best it could, British and American troops massed at ev......
	Summer of 44 by Nicolas Trudgian. (B) Price : £180.00	As the Allied invasion of northern France drew nearer, the entire length of southern England had seemingly become one huge army camp. While the local population went about its daily business as best it could, British and American troops massed at ev......

	Summer of 44 by Nicolas Trudgian. (RM) SOLD OUT	As the Allied invasion of northern France drew nearer, the entire length of southern England had seemingly become one huge army camp. While the local population went about its daily business as best it could, British and American troops massed at ev......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Summer of 44 by Nicolas Trudgian. (XX) Price : £145.00	As the Allied invasion of northern France drew nearer, the entire length of southern England had seemingly become one huge army camp. While the local population went about its daily business as best it could, British and American troops massed at ev......
	Summer of 44 by Nicolas Trudgian. (Y) SOLD OUT	As the Allied invasion of northern France drew nearer, the entire length of southern England had seemingly become one huge army camp. While the local population went about its daily business as best it could, British and American troops massed at eve......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Victory Over Gold by Nicolas Trudgian. Price : £170.00	Frustrated by the absence of Luftwaffe aircraft over the Normandy beaches on D-Day, Allied fighter pilots were spoiling for a fight. When a dozen Ju88s appeared over Gold Beach on the following morning, June 7, 1944, the patrolling Spitfires of 401 ......
	Victory Over Gold by Nicolas Trudgian. (AP) Price : £250.00	Frustrated by the absence of Luftwaffe aircraft over the Normandy beaches on D-Day, Allied fighter pilots were spoiling for a fight. When a dozen Ju88s appeared over Gold Beach on the following morning, June 7, 1944, the patrolling Spitfires of 401 ......

	Victory Over Gold by Nicolas Trudgian (B) SOLD OUT	Frustrated by the absence of Luftwaffe aircraft over the Normandy beaches on D-Day, Allied fighter pilots were spoiling for a fight. When a dozen Ju88s appeared over Gold Beach on the following morning, June 7, 1944, the patrolling Spitfires of 401 ......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Victory Over Gold by Nicolas Trudgian. (C) SOLD OUT	Frustrated by the absence of Luftwaffe aircraft over the Normandy beaches on D-Day, Allied fighter pilots were spoiling for a fight. When a dozen Ju88s appeared over Gold Beach on the following morning, June 7, 1944, the patrolling Spitfires of 401 ......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Victory Over Gold by Nicolas Trudgian. (E) Price : £190.00	Frustrated by the absence of Luftwaffe aircraft over the Normandy beaches on D-Day, Allied fighter pilots were spoiling for a fight. When a dozen Ju88s appeared over Gold Beach on the following morning, June 7, 1944, the patrolling Spitfires of 401 ......
	Front Line Hurricanes by Robert Taylor. Price : £210.00	Based at a temporary formed airfield at Lille Marc, Hurricanes of No. 87 Squadron - showing the strains of battle - taxi in from a skirmish during heavy fighting in the Battle of France, May 1940. ......
	Front Line Hurricanes by Robert Taylor (AP) Price : £360.00	Based at a temporary formed airfield at Lille Marc, Hurricanes of No. 87 Squadron - showing the strains of battle - taxi in from a skirmish during heavy fighting in the Battle of France, May 1940. ......

	Front Line Hurricanes by Robert Taylor. (B) Price : £190.00	Based at a temporary formed airfield at Lille Marc, Hurricanes of No. 87 Squadron - showing the strains of battle - taxi in from a skirmish during heavy fighting in the Battle of France, May 1940. ......
	A Time for Heroes by Robert Taylor. (C) SOLD OUT	Royal Air Force and Royal Navy fighter aircrews flew combat throughout the six long years of World War Two. At the outbreak of war in 1939 four RAF Hurricane squadrons and two equipped with Gladiators went immediately to France where in short time N......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Defending the Realm by Philip West. (AP) Price : £280.00	The White Cliffs at Dover patrolled and protected by two magnificent Spitfires. A sight to bring back memories of days, thankfully long gone, when the future of Great Britain was at stake. ......
	Against All Odds by Philip West. (AP) Price : £190.00	Geoffrey Wellum joins combat head-on with a Dornier during the Battle of Britain. He was part of a small group of 10 spitfires from Biggin Hill facing 150 plus enemy bombers and fighters. Other friendly fighters joined battle but the defenders were ......
	The Guardians by Philip West. (AP) SOLD OUT	Legendary Hurricane pilot Flight Commander Pete Brothers (32 Sqn) and his wingman, having just taken off from Biggin Hill, proceed to gain height over the White Cliffs of Dover in search of the fighters and bombers of the Luftwaffe. By the end of th......	NOT AVAILABLE

	Glorious Summer by Robert Taylor Price : £260.00	Throughout the long hot summer of 1940 the destiny of the British Isles, indeed the future of Europe, lay in the hands of a small band of young RAF fighter pilots. Against them stood the vast aerial fleets of an all-powerful Luftwaffe, gloating and c......
	Glorious Summer by Robert Taylor (AP) SOLD OUT	Throughout the long hot summer of 1940 the destiny of the British Isles, indeed the future of Europe, lay in the hands of a small band of young RAF fighter pilots. Against them stood the vast aerial fleets of an all-powerful Luftwaffe, gloating and c......	NOT AVAILABLE
	Glorious Summer by Robert Taylor. (B) Price : £635.00	Throughout the long hot summer of 1940 the destiny of the British Isles, indeed the future of Europe, lay in the hands of a small band of young RAF fighter pilots. Against them stood the vast aerial fleets of an all-powerful Luftwaffe, gloating and c......
	Return of the Few by Stephen Brown. (AP) Price : £175.00	It is 1941, the Battle of Britain is won but the countrys future is still by no means certain, with the Luftwaffe continuing to mount daily raids on cities, factories and airfields. In Stephen Browns painting Return of the Few, the legendary Douglas......