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• Briefing model - Part of Juno & Sword Beaches (D-Day)

  (vehicles, aircraft and ships)

  Part of an incomplete British Second World War briefing model (scale of 1/5280) made in preparation for the invasion of Normandy on D-Day, 6 June 1944. The model comprises six sections, four of which cover the coastline from Berniers to La Breche, and...

• respirator, anti-gas, No4 Mk3

  (equipment) 1940

  haversack, respirator with canister, 2 tins of anti-gas ointment No.5, packet of anti-gas eyeshields Mk 2, 1 anti-dimming outfit green canvas haversack with two external pockets and three internal compartments, black rubber mask with red-brown canister (...

• Friction Pad MKII (bomber's - for igniting grenades)

  (equipment) Made by: Lion Fireworks Company

  Friction Pad rectangular-shaped cardboard striker pad with two attached green cloth tying tapes. The underside has the maker's details printed on paper and glued to the pad. (Printed details: 'H. 1257 / BRASSARD, FRICTION Mk II / FOR STRIKING FRICTION...

• playing cards, handmade

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  Made by donor's father while a POW in Italy.

• Dunkirk Beaches, 1940

  (art) Made by: Eurich, Richard Ernst (RA) 1940

  image: View across the beach at Dunkirk with lines of soldiers preparing for evacuation and walking through the surf to small boats waiting offshore. A black pall of smoke hangs in the sky and bomb craters pock the sand to the left of the composition

• badge, headdress, Kitchener's Army

  (uniforms and insignia)

  These were worn prior to the issue of the regimental cap badges.

• box, 100 cartridges, .22 inch, RF, Mk 2

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Imperial Metal Industries Ltd (Kynoch), Witton, Birmingham 1965

  British issue training ammunition. .22 rimfire ammunition was formally approved for British service use on 19 November 1908 (rifles with barrel insert tubes adapted for it were available in service from 1906), and quickly superceded the .297/.230 Morris...

• grenade, Hand & .303 Rifle, No.23 Mk III, sectioned

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: E A Radnall & Co 1918-11

  donor states that grenade came from effects of his late father Pte Joseph Prill 16 (Service) Battalion Rifle Brigade, who was killed in action 1917. This origin is in doubt as grenade manufactured Nov/1918

• eyeshields, anti-gas, Mk.II.

  (equipment)

  Second World War period anti-gas goggles (eyeshields); they were Issued to all military personnel as a preventative measure anticipating chemical warfare, but commonly used by vehicle drivers when operating in dusty environments.

• eyeshields, anti-gas

  (equipment)

  4 pairs eyeshields, 2 canvas envelopes, 1 cardboard sleeve container