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• Horsedrawn Sand Cart

  (vehicles, aircraft and ships)

  Sand or Desert Ambulance Cart. In Egypt, Sinai and Palestine, the narrow wheeled regulation pattern was useless, sinking in the sand. At first, 10, then 22, Sand Carts, were issued to each Field Ambulance.

• Horsedrawn GS Mk.VIII Wagon

  (vehicles, aircraft and ships)

  Model of British First world war horse-drawn Wagon GS MkII, complete with associated equipment, and stores. It has a natural wood finish, black lettering, and simple but "heavy" non-scale fittings. It also has two rather out of scale horses. To...

• sword bayonet for Short Magazine Lee-Enfield rifle (SMLE Mark 3) & Pattern 1907, third type

  part of "British Pattern 1907 sword bayonet [third type], with scabbard" (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Sanderson Brothers and Newbould

  SPECIMEN & (SEE) WEA 467 & WEA 470 & WEA 472

• direction sign, to Hell Fire Corner

  (equipment)

  Hell Fire Corner was a particularly dangerous point on the Menin Road on the eastern edge of the City of Ypres

• 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...

• Webbing, 1908 pattern (Battle Order)

  (equipment) Made by: Mills Equipment Company 1919

  Following the criticism of the Slade-Wallace equipment worn on campaign in South Africa during the Second Anglo-Boer War and its unsuitability for future service, the 1903 Pattern Bandolier Equipment was introduced. Although it had advantages over its...

• personal equipment, British Army Officer's Sam Browne

  (equipment)

  Standard army officer's personal equipment.

• location sign, Menin Gate

  (equipment)

  First World War period British Army location sign: this was the original British Army sign erected at the Menin Gate, Ypres, Belgium. It was replaced in 1917 after being damaged. 'At the time of the Great War, there was no actual gate on the site. It was...

• direction sign, Jerusalem

  (equipment)

  sign & backing canvas sign lettered in black on white, nailed to wooden board Polaroid photo in signs card index

• location sign, 'Yellow Line

  (equipment)

  First World War period signboard used by British forces in a captured German trench at Beaumont Hamel (on the Somme front). During a major offensive when the objective was to penetrate and capture the German front and supply lines, the enemy trenches...