Volunteer Agricultural Camp Lapel Badge.

Celluloid and tin, pin back badge for a volunteer in a Volunteer Agricultural Camp. The VACs were set up as part of the Dig for Victory and Lend a hand on the Land campaigns where volunteers were treated to a working holiday particularly at harvest time. Good, used condition.  read more

Code: 12715

Home Guard Pocket Manual.

1944 revised edition ' The Home Guard Pocket Manual ' by A.Southworth, RSM Sevenoaks HG.72pgs inc. b/w illustrations and sketches outlining everything from weapon training, drill, scouting and battlecraft to field fortifications. In good, used condition with minor marking to covers and one small tear.  read more

Code: 12714

WLA Ten Year Service Award.

A scarce example of the Ten Year Service award for the Women's Land Army. Cast gilt and enamel, pinback badge made by J.R.Gaunt, London. This was accompanied by a certificate bearing an impression of the badge and was awarded for 10 years ' good ' service and was only ever awarded to a small number of Land Girls, consequently difficult to find and would rate alongside the Timber Corps silver ba...  read more

Code: 12713

Home Guard Proficiency Certificate - West Riding.

Home Guard Certificate of Proficiency to a L/Cpl.. in the 22nd West Riding ( Calder Valley ) Home Guard. Certificate indicates the tests required to obtain the HG proficiency badges , in this case
Gen. knowledge, Sten, battlecraft, map reading and first aid. Certificate in good condition with some marking and creasing with copy roll from the unit indicating the owner served with the 2n...  read more

Code: 12711

London Auxiliary Ambulance Service Shoulder title.

Scarce embroidered gold cotton on bluette shoulder title for use by the London Auxiliary Ambulance Service . Paper backing largely intact with evidence of having been removed from a uniform.  read more

Code: 12710

S.A.T. Pamphlet Vol I No.3 Rifle - Lincs Home Guard.

1942 S.A.T Vol.I, Pamphlet No.3 Rifle. 44pg manual dealing with the mechanism, deployment and use of the No.3 and No.4 rifles complete with a section on the No.4T sniper rifle. The manual bears the stamp of the 2nd Kesteven Battalion of the Lincs Home Guard. Good, used condition with some light marking and creasing.  read more

Code: 12709

Halesowen's Warship Week badge.

30mm tin and celluloid, pinback badge for Halesowen's Warship Week, Feb.28 - 7 Mar 1942. Probably given in exchange for a contribution to the fund, this example with light foxing and corrosion with some deformation to reverse.  read more

Code: 12708

Fire Guard Paperwork - Oxford.

Small grouping of paperwork relating to the exemption from Fire Guard duties of a resident who lived initially in Coventry and latterly in Oxford. Letters and forms relate to ongoing exemption in 1942 and 1943. Good, used condition.
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Code: 12707

Comic postcard - Haricot Beans and Gasmasks!

Wartime comic postcard featuring the hardy perennial of British comedy- the fart gag. Featuring the work of the artist Donald McGill and is postally unused and in excellent, clean condition.
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Code: 12705

Home Guard shoulder title - Manchester.

Red, embroidered, Home Guard shoulder title. This colour of shoulder title is associated with use by units of the Greater Manchester Home Guard. The area covered by Greater Manchester was divided into zones with each zone taking a different colour shoulder title. This example in good, issued condition with clear evidence of having been removed from a uniform.  read more

Code: 12704