Home Guard Improvised Grenade.
WW2 Home Guard extemporised grenade. Designed by Lt.Col.Williams Ellis of the 1st Btn. Merioneth Home Guard the grenade consisted of a rough casting sealed by a wooden plug, similar in design and construction to the WW1 Battye bomb. Filled with black powder and intiated by a piece of Bickford cord the grenade could be used as a practice or as a replacement H.E.Fragmentation grenade in place of ... read more
Wartime Observer Corps Officer's Cap.
Uncommon example of an Observer Corps Officer's Cap. Manufactured by the Bedford Tailor of Harry Hills Ltd who had their premises in Silver St, Bedford and featuring a prominent label to interior. RAF officer style cap with a deep leather head band and featuring a bullion cap badge with a gilt form of an Elizabethan Beacon Lighter on a mound surmounting a patent leather chinstrap. Good, used co... read more
Isle of Ely Special Constabulary Anti-Gas.
Tin and celluloid lapel badge worn by Special Constables of the Isle of Ely that have been trained in Anti-Gas measures. Unusual stud lapel fitting to reverse. Slightly faded with cracked surface finish, uncommon. read more
Emergency Relief Organisation Armband.
Printed cotton armband for the Emergency Relief Organisation. The ERO was the name for most of the post-raid services including rest centres and air raid welfare in Scotland. From December 1940 the various post-raid organisations were brought under the ERO banner and insignia was issued. In good overall condition with light surface marking. Scarce. read more
CD Training Pamphlet No2. Objects Dropped from the Air.
Important Civil Defence Training Pamphlet detailing all the objects dropped from the air likely to be encountered by CD personnel. Printed in 1944 and given a RESTRICTED classification the70pg booklet details most of the known German air dropped ordnance demonstrating them in b/w photographs and diagrams. Also lists Italian ordnance and Allied AA shells, barrage balloon devices,mortars,rockets ... read more
A.F.S. Nuneaton Lapel badge.
Brass and silver gilt lapel badge worn by members of Nuneaton A.F.S. Half moon lapel fitting with manufacturer's details for the ' Birmingham Medal Co '. Rubbed condition but scarce. read more
WVS Cambridgeshire Civil Defence arm badge.
WVS Civil Defence embroidered arm badge and area title for Cambridgeshire. Arm badge and area title embroidered on felt which replaced flannel from 1941 due to wartime shortages. The badge and Cambridgeshire title were worn low on the sleeve although the arm badge does appear both as a breast and beret/hat badge. Both items in unmothed condition with clear signs of having been removed from a un... read more
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Children's miniature book ' Life in a Tank '.
Part of the ' Tuck's Little Books ' series published by Raphael Tuck & Sons intended as a pocket size book for use ' in the shelter '. In good, used condition with some contemporary marking.
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Emergency Food Officer lapel badge.
Gilt and enamel lapel badge for a Ministry of Food 'Emergency Food Officer'. with the details of H.W.Miller, B'ham to the reverse half-moon lapel fitting. Gilt is bright with very minor abrasions. EFOs were largely administrative staff brought in to restore food supplies where disruption had been caused by air raid damage. read more
40.00 GBP
Shelter at Home leaflet.
1941 leaflet issued by the Ministry of Home Security with 19 pages full of advice about the locations of Morrison shelters, refuge rooms and DIY internal shelters. Illustrated throughout with diagrams and photographs. Good overall, used condition with some light marking to covers read more