Item Reference: 006541
Category: Second World War
Format: Book
Description: Edition of Insurance Organisation and Management by J. B. Welsom and F. H. Sherriff, for the use of HM’s forces, Jan. 1945
Date: 1945
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Item Reference: 006540
Category: Second World War
Format: Book
Description: Edition of The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan Issued to HM’s forces with best wishes from YMCA Glasgow
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Item Reference: 006513
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Standard issue, ACME pattern 049, Nickel-plated brass Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Warden’s whistle. Maufactured by J Hudson and Co. Barr, Hockley, Birmingham. x2
Date: c. 1938
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Item Reference: 006539
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Green, metal, army-issue battery bicycle lamp with visor and lens with red gel insert.
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Item Reference: 006512
Category: Second World War
Format: Clothing
Description: Silk scarf, hand embroidered with military badge of the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire regiment
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Item Reference: 006537
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Small Collecting Tin raising funds for the Shooter’s Hill War Memorial Hospital
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Item Reference: 001440
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Empty, oblong, tin, badly rusted, with worn and patchy instructions printed on lid. Would have previously contained eight lead tubes of anti-gas ointment designed to be applied to the skin as an antidote to mustard gas and lewisite
Date: c. 1941
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Item Reference: 006536
Category: Second World War
Format: Clothing
Description: Nine Civil Defence volunteer uniform buttons, 8 large and 1 small
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Item Reference: 006535
Category: Second World War
Format: Clothing
Description: Single Air Raid Precautions (ARP) Warden uniform button
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Item Reference: 001431
Category: Second World War
Format: Artefact
Description: Small, green, tubular tin, badly rusted, with worn and patchy instructions printed on the outside. Would have contained anti-dimming compound and cleaning cloth for gas mask eye pieces
Date: 1940s
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