Close Combat by Ivan Berryman. (APB) SQN321 Highlanders of the Appin Regiment

Highlanders of the Appin Regiment abandon their plaids and rush headlong across fields of stubble into the stunned ranks of Jonny Cope's army

but it was later confirmed as a victory when the aircraft was found to have crash landed at Streatham Nr Barnard Castle

6th April 1944

the sister of Charles I

Close Combat by Ivan Berryman. (APB) SQN321 Highlanders of the Appin RegimentDHM1858APB. Close Combat by Ivan Berryman. Whilst flying with A Flight of 85 Squadron on 30th July 1940, Geoffrey Allard encountered a pair of Messerschmitt Bf. 110s about 40 miles from the coast, apparently patrolling near a convoy. After Squadron Leader Townsend, flying Red 1, had made two unsuccessful attacks, Allard closed to 150 yards and began to fire continuously, eventually closing to just 25 yards, whereupon the starboard engine of the Bf.