Wartime exploits of father and son
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Wartime exploits of father and son
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Limited edition commemorative prints to be signed by Group Captain Douglas 'Hank' Iveson and his son Squadron leader Bob Iveson.
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One newspaper cutting
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SIvesonD19171121v10051
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Historical prints mark wartime exploits of father and son
[photograph]
Group-Captain Iveson with “Second Strike”.
In the thick of the Falklands crisis a Harrier pilot was shot down over Goose Green as he attacked an enemy target.
The pilot, Sqdn Ldr Robert Iveson, ejected and avoided capture, surviving the bitter Falklands winter for two days in an old shepherd’s hut called Paragon House.
A few months later Squadron-Leader Iveson, safely back on native soil, and his father, a second world war air ace now retired to Filey, are about to make history.
Fine art printers Nuffield Press are producing a pair of prints to commemorate father and son’s activities during enemy confrontations.
One, “Course Correction”, will be signed by Group Capt Douglas Iverson and the other, “Second Strike”, will be signed by his son. Both are in limited editions of 500.
Group Captain Iverson was house-hunting in Filey while the drame was going on on the other side of the Equator. He and his wife eventually found a house in Ewdon Close – and promptly named it Paragon House, after the shelter that had saved their son.
Group Captain Iveson, who was born in Hull, had a distinguished 29-year career in the Royal Air Force, during which he gained the DSO and the DFC.
In 1944 he commanded 76 Squadron which conducted a raid on Nuremburg, losing several of its aircraft in the process. It is one of the Halifax bombers used in the raid that is depicted in “Course Correction”.
The original paintings have both been done by Maurice Gardner, whose last painting for the Nuffield Press sold out all its 500 practically before they were printed.
Having left the services Group Captain Iveson took a business studies course and joined Sheffield Chamber of Commerce as its secretary. He retired last year, at the age of 65, as its director.
He and his wife, Margaret, had been determined to spend their retirement in Filey, where the Iverson family holidayed with Mr and Mrs Pashby in Church Street as far back as 1922.
Of all his wartime memories, Group Captain Iveson recalls most vividly returning from a night raid over Germany and crossing the English coast somewhere between Flamborough Head and Scarborough just as dawn was breaking.
“I had known that area like the back of my hand since I was a boy and I could identify every village and street.
“I must admit that, looking down on that familiar coastline always gave me a certain satisfaction, a feeling that I had done my bit.
“I wouldn’t put my feelings about the job I was doing any higher than that – one did one’s bit, making a contribution to a task being done with a purpose.”
[photograph]
Group-Captain Iveson with “Second Strike”.
In the thick of the Falklands crisis a Harrier pilot was shot down over Goose Green as he attacked an enemy target.
The pilot, Sqdn Ldr Robert Iveson, ejected and avoided capture, surviving the bitter Falklands winter for two days in an old shepherd’s hut called Paragon House.
A few months later Squadron-Leader Iveson, safely back on native soil, and his father, a second world war air ace now retired to Filey, are about to make history.
Fine art printers Nuffield Press are producing a pair of prints to commemorate father and son’s activities during enemy confrontations.
One, “Course Correction”, will be signed by Group Capt Douglas Iverson and the other, “Second Strike”, will be signed by his son. Both are in limited editions of 500.
Group Captain Iverson was house-hunting in Filey while the drame was going on on the other side of the Equator. He and his wife eventually found a house in Ewdon Close – and promptly named it Paragon House, after the shelter that had saved their son.
Group Captain Iveson, who was born in Hull, had a distinguished 29-year career in the Royal Air Force, during which he gained the DSO and the DFC.
In 1944 he commanded 76 Squadron which conducted a raid on Nuremburg, losing several of its aircraft in the process. It is one of the Halifax bombers used in the raid that is depicted in “Course Correction”.
The original paintings have both been done by Maurice Gardner, whose last painting for the Nuffield Press sold out all its 500 practically before they were printed.
Having left the services Group Captain Iveson took a business studies course and joined Sheffield Chamber of Commerce as its secretary. He retired last year, at the age of 65, as its director.
He and his wife, Margaret, had been determined to spend their retirement in Filey, where the Iverson family holidayed with Mr and Mrs Pashby in Church Street as far back as 1922.
Of all his wartime memories, Group Captain Iveson recalls most vividly returning from a night raid over Germany and crossing the English coast somewhere between Flamborough Head and Scarborough just as dawn was breaking.
“I had known that area like the back of my hand since I was a boy and I could identify every village and street.
“I must admit that, looking down on that familiar coastline always gave me a certain satisfaction, a feeling that I had done my bit.
“I wouldn’t put my feelings about the job I was doing any higher than that – one did one’s bit, making a contribution to a task being done with a purpose.”
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“Wartime exploits of father and son,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed October 9, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/44848.