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• Harrington & Richardson Automatic Ejecting .32 Hammerless

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Harrington & Richardson Arms Co. Worcester, MA, USA

  This revolver was taken from an unknown German spy in Britain during the First World War. It was passed to the museum in 1920, by MI7(b), the branch of the intelligence services responsible for press and propaganda. The revolver featured in a display...

• fabric from the German Army airship SL11

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  Fabric from the First World War German Army airship SL11, which was shot down in flames over Cuffley, Hertfordshire by Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson (39 [Home Defence] Squadron, Royal Flying Corps) on 2-3 September 1916. The SL11 was the first...

• fuel gauge from the German airship SL11

  (souvenirs and ephemera) Made by: Maximall

  Fuel gauge salvaged from the First World War German Army airship SL11, which was shot down in flames at Cuffley, Hertfordshire by Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson (39 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps) on 2-3 September 1916. The SL11 was the first airship to...

• piece of wire from the German Zeppelin SL11

  (vehicles, aircraft and ships)

  Piece of wire from the rigging of the First World War German airship SL11made into a souvenir 'package' and sold to raise money for the Red Cross. The SL11 was shot down in flames at Cuffley, Hertfordshire by Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson (39...

• ring made of salvaged metal from the German airship SL11

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  Fragment of salvaged metal from the First World War German airship SL11 made into finger ring and sold to raise money for the Red Cross. The airship was shot down in flames at Cuffley, Hertfordshire by Lieutenant William Leefe Robinson on 2-3 September...

• booklet, 'Destruction of Zeppelin

  (souvenirs and ephemera) Made by: T. Mathews & Co. Ltd., Leicester

  First World War period commemorative booklet inspired by the destruction of the German Army airship SL11 at Cuffley, Hertfordshire, on the night of 2/3 September 1916. The airship, which was destroyed by Lieutenant William Leefe-Robinson (39 Squadron,...

• piece of aircraft fabric ('Devil in the Dusk')

  (vehicles, aircraft and ships)

  Piece of First World War period British aircraft fabric. The remnant is from the Bristol Fighter (serial number C4636) which was flown by Flying Officer A J Arkell and A M Stagg (39 Squadron, Royal Air Force) on the evening of May 19-20 1918, when they...

• Zeppelin Incendiary Bomb

  (weapons and ammunition)

  Stem and base only, of a First World War German incendiary bomb which was dropped on the railway lines near Wallsend Station, Northumberland, on the night of 14 April 1915, by the German Naval Airship Zeppelin L9. This, the second Zeppelin raid in which...

• machine gun

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Deutsche Waffen-und Munitionsfabriken, Berlin 1915

  The standard German machine-gun of the First World War, the MG08 was a water-cooled weapon employing the Maxim system of operation (see FIR 8095). The version of the MG 08 adopted by the German Navy differed in minor details from the Army version (see...

• German MG 08 Machine-Gun (naval)

  (weapons and ammunition) Made by: Deutsche Waffen-und Munitionsfabriken, Berlin 1915

  The standard German machine-gun of the First World War, the MG08 was a water-cooled weapon employing the Maxim system of operation (see FIR 8095). The version of the MG 08 adopted by the German Navy differed in minor details from the Army version (see...