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  • Red Cross ambulance, heraldic china Red Cross ambulance, heraldic china

    (souvenirs and ephemera) Made by: Shelley China (Longton, Stoke-on-Trent)

    First World War period British commemorative china ambulance associated with the service of (397500) Private Daniel Cohen, Army Service Corps (ASC).

  • badge, service, British, Women's Land Army and Land Army Agricultural Section good service badge badge, service, British, Women's Land Army and Land Army Agricultural Section good service badge

    (uniforms and insignia)

    British First World War period Women's Land Army (WLA) brassard. The Women's Land Army was established early in January 1917. A Women's Branch was set up within the Board of Agriculture under Dame Meriel Talbot as Director, to increase the supply of...

  • badge, British, Board of Agriculture Land Worker's badge 1915-1916 badge, British, Board of Agriculture Land Worker's badge 1915-1916

    (uniforms and insignia) Made by: Fattorini & Sons, Bradford

    First World War period British Board of Agriculture Land Worker's badge; British Home Front (agricultural production) associations.

  • 'The Blinded Soldiers' & Sailors' Gift Book' jigsaw 'The Blinded Soldiers' & Sailors' Gift Book' jigsaw

    (souvenirs and ephemera)

    First World War period jigsaw, which was either sold with, or as an addition to, the Gift Book itself, and the funds raised were intended to assist the work of the 'St Dunstan's' charity (established in 1915 to support and retrain war-blinded ex-...

  • sugar bowl, 'Bairnsfather sugar bowl, 'Bairnsfather

    (souvenirs and ephemera) Made by: Grimwades Ltd, Stoke-on-Trent

    First World War period (post-1917) Staffordshire (Stoke-on-Trent) manufactured earthenware sugar bowl decorated with humorous and inspirational propaganda Bairnsfather 'Old Bill' cartoon in the context of the 'Better 'Ole'. British Home Front...

  • dummy rifle, British dummy rifle, British

    (weapons and ammunition)

    This dummy rifle saw service as a training-aid during both World Wars. In configuration it resembles a pre-First World War Mark 1 or Mark 2 Short, Magazine Lee-Enfield rifle and bears the mark of a unit of the Volunteer Training Corps - the First World...