Home Guard Instruction No.60 - Weapon Training.
1943 Home Guard Instruction No.60 - Weapon Training Miscellaneous Notes. 12pgs with some sketches and diagrams concerning various aspects of weapon training from Northover Projector to grenades. Good, used condition with some light marking and creasing. read more
August 1945 Edition of the Land Girl.
Volume 6 , No.5 August 1945 edition of the Land Girl. Last of the wartime editions,16pgs with all of the regular columns, county news etc with features including a feminist leader ' Growing up and being grown-up - A woman in the world '. Has been folded and has rusted staples. read more
West Bromwich War Savings Tin Badge.
Tin and celluloid 32mm lapel badge for the West Bromwich Victory Savings Campaign featuring an image of a comic Hitler in a set of stocks formed by the letter ' V '. Good, used condition with some light foxing, uncommon. read more
England's Glory Matches Trade Pack.
A trade or multi-pack of England's Glory matches. Containing 24 individual boxes of matches overwrapped with a paper wrapper with various slogans printed to the faces including ' War Emergency - our wrapper gift scheme is now discontinued ' and ' support home industries ' . Some loss to wrapper but otherwise in good N.O.S. condition.
UK ONLY. read more
Aircraft Identification - Friend or Foe - British & German.
1940 ' Aircraft Identification - Friend or Foe ? - British & German Fighters and Bombers '. 64pg manual published by the ' Aeroplane ' magazine giving thorough descriptions of most types in service in this period with photographic and plan views. Good,used condition with some rusting to staples. read more
Depty Divisional/District Warden Helmet.
Deputy Divisional/District Warden helmet sporting the markings adopted by the post July 1942 standardisation of the Warden Service helmet markings. Standard 1939 MkII helmet with a 1939 MkI, size 7 liner by Helmets Ltd. Overall good condition with some light rust spotting to surface. read more
' Join the WLA ' Recruitment flyer.
Attractive 15cm x 23cm flyer for WLA recruitment. Based on the larger poster design by Monica Goddard and printed by Fosh & Cross. In a demonstration of wartime expediency it has a typed notation to the reverse and staple mark but is in otherwise excellent condition. Uncommon. read more
Home Guard Instruction No.45
1942 Home Guard Instruction No.45 - Miscellaneous Notes. 5pgs covering various subjects from mobile patrols to special HG weapons, aircraft recognition and the B.A.R. Good, clean condition with light rusting to staples. read more
.300 Vickers Machine Gun Manual.
C1941 Manual by the publishers Gale & Polden ' .300 Vickers Machine Gun - mechanism made easy '. 36pgs including b/w photographs and diagrams displaying the mechanism and usage of the Vickers MG. This manual was written for the Home Guard who were issued with the .300 Vickers as opposed to the the standard .303. The .300 Vickers was originally built for US use and was sent to the UK after being... read more
The Aircraft Recognition Manual.
1944 ' The Aircraft Recognition Manual ' by C.H.Gibbs-Smith R.O.C. 128pgs outlining the ' science ' of aircraft recognition with a large number of multi-national aircraft profiles arranged by type. Good, used condition with repaired d/w, clean contents. read more