Civil Defence lapel badge.

25mm Brass and enamel Civil Defence lapel badge featuring the post 1940 rainbow design. Half moon lapel fitting to the reverse. Badge in bright condition with some minor surface abrasions.  read more

Code: 12657

' Ever Faithful ' 1st Btn Devon Home Guard .

C1946 1st ed. ' Ever Faithful ' - being the history of the 1st ( Loyal City of Exeter ) Battalion Devon Home Guard 1940 - 1945 by Lt.Col.H.J.Wiltshire. 166pgs covering all aspects of the battalions formation and wartime service. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and sketches with extensive appendices of battalion personnel, awards etc. Good, used condition with sunned spine.  read more

Code: 12656

First Aid in Air Raids.

1941ed. ' First Aid in Air Raids ' by D.S.Merrick Winn & H.F.Hunt. 55pgs dealing with all aspects of incident first aid from preparing stretchers to gas and dealing with the dead. Takes a fairly robust line to the subject. In good, used condition, with minor marking and rubbing to covers.  read more

Code: 12655

Association of Friends of the French Volunteers - AVF Lapel Badge.

Brass and enamel, pin back lapel badge for the AVF - Amis des Voluntaires Francais or Association of Friends of the French Volunteers. This organisation, founded by the Free French HQ in London, concerned itself with the support and welfare of French troops based in the UK. Good, used condition with undamaged enamel.  read more

Code: 12654

German 1kg B1E Incendiary bomb - Shed find !

The standard German 1kg incendiary bomb dropped on the UK in profusion and the baine of the Civil Defence services. Filled with thermite and made from electron magnesium and intiated by an impact fuze, the I.B. burnt with a fierce heat and intense white light.
This example is a recent shed find from a location just outside Wantage, Oxfordshire and displays evidence of being dropped with...  read more

Code: 12653

Fireman Armband.

Heavy cotton armband with printed ' Fireman ' title. Armband secured by four heavy duty cotton ties. This armband was typical of a series produced early in the war before standardisation and nationalisation of the Civil Defence services. Further examples in the series are shown in the third image.  read more

Code: 12652

The Air Defence of Britain.

1938 Penguin Special entitled ' The Air Defence of Britain '. A collection of essays by three authors, Charlton, Garrett and Fletcher, some 224pgs long on combined subjects making up the Defence of Britain including Air Raid Precautions. Good, clean condition.  read more

Code: 12651

Comic Postcard - Women ARP.

Comic postcard, part of the ' Humoresque ' series featuring a Woman ARP outside a sandbagged warden's post. Postally used in 1940 and in good, used condition with bumped corners and some light marking.  read more

Code: 12650

Second Phase 12th Battalion Home Guard Shoulder title.

Second Phase Home Guard shoulder title for the 12th Essex ( Stanstead ) battalion. Typical of Second Phase titles felt on a rubberised backing. Unissued condition.  read more

Code: 12649

Wartime Dance Poster with Gas Mask reminder.

44cm x 29cm approx. poster advertising a dance hosted by the BTH Apprentices Association in aid of their Hospitals Fund dancing to Ray Smith and his band with an exhortation to ' Bring Your Gas Mask ! '. BTH were British Thomson-Houston a British engineering and heavy industrial company, based at Rugby, Warwickshire. A subsidiary of GEC their primary products were electrical and steam turbines....  read more

Code: 12648