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4 subfiles as follows:
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/1 Offers Accepted. Items accepted include: .32 automatic pistol (ref 7/59); tail skid from Fokker D VII German biplane (ref 53/59); postcards; Cpl Gilks watch(ref EPH3109); Japanese pattern sword made by POWs ; medals and war souvenirs of Cpl Gilks (ref OMD 113; 975 and 1275); military badges; Kame-Kaze headband (ref EPH9896); documents, maps and photographs from the British Library of Political and Economic Science; Firing Exercises handbook 1901; Lord Haig's lances and personal flag (ref FLA940); Times History of the War; First World War cup and saucer; Webley & Scott .455, Webley MkII and Webley MkVI pistols; VAD badge; RNAS sub-lieutenant's uniform (ref UNI12559); mementoes from First World War (list supplied); Gallipoli cape (ref UNI5807); Aldis lamp; Capt Shortridge photographs and sketches; Naval Armoured Trains badge (ref 25/58); fuze covers 1914-1918 and German Army officer's cap and naval flag. 1958-1959
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/2 Offers Accepted. Items accepted include: First World War cigarrette cards; German officer's sword (ref 71/59); Sopwith aeroplane model (ref 70/59); aerial propaganda leaflets; iron wedding ring 1914; press cuttings and photographs from Beatrix Brice Miller's estate; First World War War Savings material; Lawson Wood uniform collection; bamboo walking stick (ref: EPH5548); German helmet from 1914 (ref: 54/59); Zeebrugge location sign (ref FEQ370); Finzi drawings and photographs; HMS Invincible shell fragment (ref 57/59); Mobile Defence Corps material (refs FLA113, FLA483 & possibly EPH8264); Korean National flag (ref 10/59) and sword used by the Turkish Chief of Staff to Marshal von Sanders (ref 8/59). 1959
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/3 Offers Accepted. Items accepted include: German machine gunner's telescopic sight, 1917; British proclamations 1918-1920; military badges and flashes; Canadian compass button; Zeppelin fragments and Graf Zeppelin autograph; First World War paper knife and ring; Turkish artillery director; medallion sold on 'Silent Tribute' day; POW soap from First World War; postcards; bread issued to POWs; First World War Christmas cards; lantern slides; Second World War special ration pack; posters; First World War uniform items; diary (Rayner); HMS Invincible relic; Webley & Scott signal pistol no2, Mark 1 1917 (ref 75/59); model of Mosquito (ref 76/59); Indian Police uniform; 1914-1918 War and Victory medals (Crowther); Nazi emblems and First World War WAAC uniform. 1959-1961
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/4 Offers Refused. Includes correspondence on items sent into the Museum and forwarded onto other insititutions. 1958-1960