Large glass framed pair of internal merlin engine parts from RAF Spitfire number N3070 flown by Pilot Officer Deacon Elliott of 72 Squadron he was shot down in dogfight on the 6th September 1940, crashed at Wanshurst Green during the Battle of Britain.

This is a larger size glass framed nice group of parts which are pair of merlin internal engine parts which are large parts both brass made.The parts have been nicely cleaned and retain some of there original colour they all have been mounted in to a glass fronted box frame with plane and crash information and pictures with photograph of the pilot  the frame is 12 inches by 9 inches in size. The parts come from RAF Spitfire number N3070 flown by Pilot Officer Deacon Elliott of 72 Squadron he was shot down in dogfight with Messerschmitt 109 on the 6th September 1940 over Maidstone in Kent and crashed at Wanshurst Green during the Battle of Britain.

Robert Deacon Elliott was born on 20th November 1914 at Church Brampton, Northampton. He joined the RAFVR about August 1937 as an Airman u/t Pilot. Elliott took part in operations over Dunkirk in late May 1940. On 15th August he was at 20,000 feet when his oxygen supply failed. He blacked out and his Spitfire went into a dive and he did not come round until he was at 1000 feet. On 4th September 1940 he claimed a Me110 destroyed, on the 6th a Me109, on the 9th a Me110 and on the 11th a He111. He was shot down on 6th September in a head-on attack on a Me109 over Maidstone and baled out, unhurt. His Spitfire, N3070, crashed at Wanshurst Green he bailed out safely. He was Posted to a staff job at HQ Fighter Command in October 1941, Elliott was awarded the DFC (gazetted 17th October 1941) and received a Mention in Despatches. He survived the war and died on 5th June 1997.

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