First Aid for Fighting Men.
1943, double -sided aide mémoire ' First Aid for Fighting Men .' With a specific note for issue to the Home Guard, covers all aspects of immediate treatment of wounds with the caveat ' wounds can look frightful ' ! Good, clean, used condition with pencil name to front cover.
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Air Raid Warden Bronze Plate.
N.O.S. Air Raid Warden Bronze Plate. produced by the Metal Gravure Co., London. Accompanied by leaflet with instructions for care. Excellent condition. read more
WVS Civil Defence Car Badge.
Chrome and enamel WVS Civil Defence car badge for vehicles used on official business, numbered to the reverse. Good, used condition with heavy wear to chrome plating. read more
Home Guard Proficiency Frame.
Framed and glazed Certificate of Home Guard Proficiency awarded to a private in the 1st Hampshire ( Andover ) Battalion in 1943. Included in the frame is a printed Lewis Gun proficiency badge, a HG proficiency sleeve badge and a printed war service chevron. The frame has a number of signatures to the reverse, presumably as a result of a post War reunion. read more
More Laughs with the Forces.
C1944 ' More Laughs with the Forces. ' compiled by S.Evelyn Thomas and featuring the work of the cartoonist ' Giles '. 48pgs with comic stories and jokes heavily illustrated with cartoons from various of the popular cartoonists of the time. Good, used condition with slight rusting of staples. read more
Brierley Hill War Weapons Week badge.
Approx. 25mm tin and celluloid pinback badge for Brierley Hill War Weapons Week Feb 8th - 15th 1941. Manufacturer marked ' Thos. Fattorini, B'ham ' and is in excellent, clean condition with light rusting to reverse and small chip to edge. read more
Brighton Warship Week badge.
23mm tin and celluloid pinback badge for Brighton's Warship Week ,Feb7th - 14th 1942. Probably given in exchange for a donation to the fund, this example in good used condition, light corrosion to reverse with some spotting to obverse. Manufactured by Fattorini, B'ham. read more
Air Raid Welfare Armband.
Screen printed on elastic armband for a member of the Civil Defence services or attached to them dealing with post raid issues of those who had been bombed . In good, used condition with the armband having lost some of it's elasticity. read more
National Savings Flag.
Multi-piece construction, printed National Savings Flag, 200cms x 110cms approx. Used in conjunction with the huge wartime National Savings drives and was more probably designed for mounting on a pole with a reinforced sleeve sewn to one side of the flag. Generally good + condition with a small smattering of moth damage to one area ( pictured ). read more
Patriotic wartime matchbox cover.
Tin and celluloid matchbox cover sporting pictures of the Allied leaders, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin to one side and the Generals Montgomery, Eisenhower and Alexander to the other with the words ' souvenir of the World War ' to the side. Excellent, clean condition. read more