Leicester Civil Defence Insignia.
Complete set of insignia from a CD battledress for a Leicester warden. Warden shoulder titles, senior warden rank stripes, CD breast badge with a Leicester area title. All items with clear evidence of having been removed from a uniform and in good, used condition. read more
Home Guard Instruction - No.11 1940 - Miscellaneous Notes.
5pg, gatefold pamphlet ' Home Guard Instruction No.11 - 1940 Miscellaneous Notes '. One of the regular instructions and updates issued by the War Office giving information and instruction to the Home Guard on subjects not covered by exsisting publications, use of dogs, shotguns, AT petrol bomb, LMG course and communication. Ex War Office Library, good clean condition. read more
Comic Postcard - Gasmask.
Comic postcard published by Bamforth & Co featuring a gas mask theme. Postally used.
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Ferranti ARP Warden Lapel Badge.
Chrome and enamel, pin back badge for an ARP Warden employed by Ferranti. This well known company was a major supplier of electronics, fuzes, valves and was heavily involved in the early development of radar.
Good, used condition with a small area of chrome loss. Manufacturer marked ' Thos.Fattorini, B'ham ' to reverse. read more
Home Guard sign.
20cm x 4cm approx, painted hardboard Home Guard sign. Similar in style to the early yellow ARP sign seen elsewhere on the site. In good, clean condition with some light marks, unusual. read more
Gloucestershire Civil Defence Tunic.
1941 dated ' Blouses A.R.P.57 ' Civil Defence ' battledress blouse ' style tunic. Size 3 - 5ft 4ins and under Height, Chest 38ins to 40ins and 36-38ins Waist. Clear label indicating manufacture by Prices Tailors Ltd. with WD inspection marks to interior. Warden titles to both shoulders with a CD breast badge above a Gloucestershire area title. Generally good, used condition but with some areas ... read more
Baker Perkins Ltd., ARP Badge.
Gilt and enamel lapel badge for Baker Perkins Ltd ARP services. Baker Perkins were an engineering company based in Peterborough working on cordite mixers, followed by machines to make detonators and parts for anti-aircraft guns including the Bofors. Badge with half moon lapel fitting, numbered with manufacturing details of ' Thos.Fattorini, B'ham '. Generally good condition with one small crack... read more
Land Army Enrolment Card.
1942 Women's Land Army Enrolment Card signed by the volunteer pledging to ' abide by the conditions of the WLA; its good name is in your hands .' Countersigned by the director of the WLA , Lady Denman. Good, clean condition and not commonly encountered. read more
The Mercian Maquis
1st 2002 The Mercian Maquis by Bernard Lowry & Mick Wilks. 146pgs ' The Secret Resistance Organisation in Herefordshire and Worcestershire during WW2 'with b/w photos and line drawings. An excellent localised study of the work of the Auxiliary units and Special Duties Section in Herefordshire and Worcestershire with many of the OBs identified and located. Recommended.
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Aircraft Identification manual - British Monoplanes.
Part Two ' Aircraft Identification - British Monoplanes ' prepared by the Aeroplane. Manual contains 64pgs with photographs, profiles and text for various aircraft types to aid recognition. Popular amongst most of the Home Front services, particularly the Observer Corps. This example in good, used condition with very light rusting to staples. Stylish covers.
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