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• badge, standard pattern, subordinate staff & Ministry hospitals, Ministry of Pensions

  (uniforms and insignia) 1921

  card: reverse inscribed 314 (342 254 and 142 deleted)

• button, standard pattern, General Service pattern

  (uniforms and insignia)

  card: reverse inscribed Box (144 and 110 deleted) 113

• 7 x 43 : [GB] ; .280 inch British, ball, type A

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd (Kynoch) (GB & Witton, Birmingham) 1947

  Description: British post war contender for NATO adoption, chambered in the EM2 rifle (see FIR). Although the .280 of 1950 (and the 7mm of 1953) was an excellent round, it was not adopted in face of American intransigence, and the 7.62mm NATO was adopted...

• 7 x 49 : [GB] ; 7 mm British High Velocity, ball, type B

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Royal Ornance Factory, Radway Green (GB & near Crewe, Cheshire) 1952

  Reference: Labbett, P & Mead, P J F : : British 7 mm Ammunition : P Labbett : Technical Ammunition Guide, Series 2, Pamphlet 1 : pp 14-19. Description: following the unsuccessful NATO trials of the .280 and .280/.30 cartridges in 1950, Britain,...

• 7 x 43 : [GB] ; .280 in British

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Royal Ordnance Factory, Radway Green (GB & near Crewe, Cheshire) 1948

  British post war contender for NATO adoption, chambered in the EM2 rifle (see FIR). Although the .280 of 1950 (and the 7mm of 1953) was an excellent round, it was not adopted in face of American intransigence, and the 7.62mm NATO was adopted instead,...

• badge, standard pattern, the royal cypher of George VI [see note]

  (uniforms and insignia) 1937

  badge: no reference has been found to the royal cypher being used as an arm badge, thus making a positive identification impossible. The badge is identical to that worn by an ADC on the shoulder, and similar to that worn by War Department Messangers as...

• badge, standard pattern, wireless signals

  (uniforms and insignia) 1951

  card: reverse inscribed 111 Penfold St. London 8/1/52 followed by initials CAB

• 12.7 x 76 : [GB] ; .50 Calibre Spotter & .50 BAT, Kynoch

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd (Kynoch) (GB & Witton, Birmingham) 1976

  Description : observation cartridge for the US M40 106 mm recoilless rifle, designed in the 1950s and used by the United States, Belgium, France, Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain and Switzerland. While the usual projectile has an incendiary...

• 7.7 x 56R : Kynoch ; .303 British, Mk 6z, 215 grn metal covered solid bullet

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd (Kynoch) (GB & Witton, Birmingham)

  Identification: ICI is here using a military-style designation 'Mk 6z', to indicate a round nosed bullet with nitro-cellulose propellant. However, all British military Mk VI was loaded with cordite. These heavy bullet loads were intended for target...

• badge, standard pattern, grenadier (?)

  (uniforms and insignia) 1906

  card: reverse stamped Locker 213 (220 deleted) and inscribed 2281