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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...

• Greece: An orphanage. Curing scabies with anachryl

  (art) Made by: Cole, Leslie 1945

  image: A distressed young girl being painted with anachryl by a masked nurse, attended by two women, a priest and two British soldiers. Three other children await their turn.

• private purchase medical kit

  (equipment) Made by: Army & Navy Co-operative Society Ltd, London

  Privately purchased kit associated with the First World War service (in the British Army) of F C Levey

• 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...

• The Gymnasium : Dermatological Ward, Colchester Military Hospital

  (art) Made by: Bawden, Edward 1943

  image: A view of a low red brick building on the top of an embankment, drawn from below. Men wearing blue trousers and khaki shirts lie about in the sunshine on the grass below the building.

• Boots, 1914 pattern ankle boots (brown): British Army

  (uniforms and insignia)

  Boots Brown leather ankle length boots with studded soles. The boots have holes drilled to the heels for display purposes.

• Recruit's Progress: Medical Inspection

  (art) Made by: Weight, Carel Victor Morlais (CBE, RA) 1942

  image: New recruits are lined up for inspection; all are stripped to the waist. The inspector sits at a table, head leaning on an elbow, while a recruit faces him, arms in the air and trousers round his ankles. Foreground right, a recruit, full...

• Occupational Workshop at a Convalescent Depot

  (art) Made by: Gross, Anthony 1942

  image: soldiers at work at a row of work benches. In the foreground a soldier with a bandaged foot sits next to his crutches working on a boot. On the floor is a can of oil and some machine parts. At the back of the room the men are working with wood.

• doll, Father Christmas

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  'Father Christmas' needlwork doll associated with the First World War service of Lance Corporal Charles James Frampton. Lance Corporal Frampton made this doll whilst recuperating in hospital from injuries he sustained on the Western Front. He later died...

• 'Trenchman' belt

  (souvenirs and ephemera)

  First World War period commercially produced (unofficial) personal kit in the form of a broad waist belt, which was claimed by its manufacturers to provide protection for the wearer from body infestations (notably lice) and 'chills' resulting from the...