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P8088, P/O Alex S. C. Lumbsden, No. 118 Squadron, RAF Ibsley,
United Kingdom, April - August 1941
This Spitfire was donated in January 1941 by
the Borough of Lambeth Spitfire Fund and saw
operational service with Nos. 66, 118, 152 and
19 Squadron where it was damaged during a night
landing. After repairs it served with No. 61 OTU.
The fate of P8088 was fulfilled on September
16, 1944, when it crashed with its pilot, F/Sgt
John Barry, during a training flight. In 1944/45
and 1978, parts of P8088 were recovered by the
Cosford salvage team and stored. The depicted
image of Spitfire P8088 shows its four-month
service with No. 118 Squadron, where it received
the codename NK
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K and became P/O Alec
Lumsden’s personal Spitfire. Lumsden had
a drawing of a character painted on his new
Spitfire under the front plate, which was Capt.
Reilly-Ffoull from the wartime cartoon series
Just Jake. The word BETTE, which was his
girlfriend’s nickname, was also painted on both
sides of the cockpit overlay. Alex Lumbsden was
born in 1921 and educated at Malvern College.
After the outbreak of the Second World War,
he volunteered for the RAF Reserve as a pilot
in training. His wartime career varied. During
12 months in 1941/42, he flew combat missions
from bases in England, North Africa and Malta,
and also took part in two Atlantic convoys as
a Sea Hurricane pilot. He spent the rest of the
war flying with maintenance and operational
training units. After the war he held various
positions, all of which were in one way or
another connected with aviation. A distinguished
aviation historian, he wrote countless articles
and several books on a variety of subjects.
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