mark holden Posted 10 April , 2020 Share Posted 10 April , 2020 5 hours ago, NorthStaffsPOW said: There are some lovely items on this thread. I wonder if I might add this souvenir belt (don't like the term "hate belt" when referring to these). This came to me untouched and is still quite grubby, unfortunately some items appear to have been lost to time. My favourite is this Derbyshire Yeomanry badge. There is also a nice pre-1902 Worcester shoulder title. Superb belt these belts are a particular favourite of mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 10 April , 2020 Share Posted 10 April , 2020 Some Swagger. Post Office Rifles, Manchester Regiment, Lancashire Fusiliers, Leather bound, Royal Artillery, Royal Flying Corps. The top of the L.F. stick is marked 2/6th Batt. and the cane is stamped 10072 - Pte. Percy Charles Preston. A Brewers Drayman, from Manchester. - later Pte. 615600 Labour Corps. (No. Issued May - Aug. 1918. Mostly POW Coy’s). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 10 April , 2020 Share Posted 10 April , 2020 Remains of a German Sniper Shield, supposedly from Mametz Wood area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 10 April , 2020 Share Posted 10 April , 2020 And a brace of 1918 dated, 6 pounder casings, one has been converted to a fireside companion set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cymro Posted 11 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 11 April , 2020 Beautiful GWF - I particularly like the shield relic (but then I would, it being possibly Mametz!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 11 April , 2020 Share Posted 11 April , 2020 4 hours ago, Cymro said: Beautiful GWF - I particularly like the shield relic (but then I would, it being possibly Mametz!) Me too. I bought it from a friend, he bought it from a farmer. I trust the farmer dug it up, rather than purchasing it in the hope of selling it on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 12 April , 2020 Share Posted 12 April , 2020 More bits and bobs, includes - FANY Shoulder titles and buttons, the other buttons are local Victorian Rifle Volunteers, 3 x Herefordshire and 1 Radnorshire. Smoking paraphernalia. Tobacco jar made from a pair of 3” 20 Cwt A.A. Gun casings, with dedication from a R.E IWT Officer to a R.F Officer, 18lb casing ashtray, 18ld pin dish/ashtray with French coin, 4.5 How casing with Indian coin. Talbot House ashtray. Treen snuff box shell. Book lighter and book Vesta. Named and/or dated matchbox covers. Anvil memorial, symbolising sacrifice, dedicated to William Thomas Richards. 57511. 10th Worcestershire Regt. Died. 18/6/18. Strange, oversize dog tag to Dvr. Albert Edward Humphries. M2/114240. ASC MT, normal issue red tag for comparison. Button stick, made, like the tags, from vulcanised asbestos fibre, marked to 4th RWF and numbered to 9018. Percy Irwin Evans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cymro Posted 12 April , 2020 Author Share Posted 12 April , 2020 An experimental pattern Wire Cutters, of which there were several types. I routed out a board, varnished it and had a plaque done. Very interesting story regarding the inventor... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimGJ Posted 12 April , 2020 Share Posted 12 April , 2020 Cadets still used the Monmouthshire shoulder titles on Battledress in the Mid 1960's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete_C Posted 12 April , 2020 Share Posted 12 April , 2020 (edited) This is a great thread with some really fabulous items already out on show, and so far not a bayonet in sight. Long may it run.... Thought I’d add something appropriate for Easter Sunday. I‘ve had this in my collection for around forty years having come directly from a house clearance in Crosscliffe Street, Manchester. The personal effects of Lieutenant George Holehouse. He enlisted on 15th November 1915 into the Manchester Regiment and was commissioned to the 5th Battalion East Lancs Regiment on 25 June 1918. There’s a lot of fascinating paper work, pamphlets, maps etc, including a beautifully produced ‘Souvenir Magazine of Number Seventeen Officer Cadet Battalion’ Kinmel Park from January 1918. His medals were still in the boxes in the envelope they were posted in, never worn. There’s a copy of the Manchester Evening News from 11th November 1918 which includes George in the casualty lists. But the centre piece of the collection is a battered crucifix in which was wedged a German rifle bullet – the bullet struck the cross from the rear as it still fits perfectly even though badly deformed – also his ‘lucky’ sixpence. The force with which the bullet slammed into the cross would almost certainly have put him on the casualty list. While these things have become apocryphal – bullets in old pennies etc – I have no doubt whatsoever that this is a genuine example. George was among 4,228 other British casualties from the lists released over the weekend prior to the armistice. Above him are listed two officers who enlisted in 1914 only to be killed in the final weeks of the war. The house in Manchester is long gone and as a collector of uniforms and accoutrements I have never researched beyond what was in the box, not even looked into where the 5th Bat E. Lancs saw action in late 1918 ! George must have recovered and returned to service as he was promoted to full Lieutenant on 26th December 1919, though not Gazetted until 5th January 1921. All the best, Pete Edited 13 April , 2020 by Pete_C Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark holden Posted 12 April , 2020 Share Posted 12 April , 2020 Dave, A very poignant yet fascinating time capsule. Its very reassuring when these items of one man's history all stay together. Thank you for sharing a superb grouping. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wainfleet Posted 14 April , 2020 Share Posted 14 April , 2020 "Rose picked beside big gun in firing line in France. Sent by N J Strevens, June 16th 1915". Driver Nimshi John Strevens was a pre-war ASC regular. He served with the 95th (Horse Transport) Company ASC, attached to the 27th Division until January 1916, then to the 55th Division. He survived the war, ending it as a Lance-Corporal. I haven't attempted to remove the rose from its envelope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wainfleet Posted 14 April , 2020 Share Posted 14 April , 2020 A different sort of flower. This Haig Fund poppy, which I think is silk and dates to the 1920s, was bought in this old cardboard box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wainfleet Posted 14 April , 2020 Share Posted 14 April , 2020 The diary of a Sheffield Pal. 12/175 stretcher bearer Reginald Lister of Millhouses, Sheffield served with the 12th West Yorkshire regiment and kept this diary from 16 March to 26 June 1916. He was killed in action at Serre on 1 July 1916. It includes the names and addresses of 15 other stretcher bearers in the battalion. His brother, Private 12/176 Wilfred Lister, was wounded on the same day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave66 Posted 14 April , 2020 Share Posted 14 April , 2020 It’s these small personal items that tell those individual stories that I find fascinating...here’s a small early 20th century drinking glass, with a difference. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry B Posted 14 April , 2020 Share Posted 14 April , 2020 On 10/04/2020 at 11:32, Michael Haselgrove said: There are altogether too many superb items on this thread to comment on them individually. However, thanks to everyone who has contributed such marvellous things. Here is a helmet from my collection. what a helmet, as another welsh collector, I am green On 10/04/2020 at 15:46, Cymro said: A bit 'After the Lord Mayor's show' this after Michael's lovely offering but here is a helmet to the 10th SWB in my collection. Also a Welsh Guards or Welsh Horse helmet with an unidentified sign on the opposite side. superb helmets mate and you know what I think of your titles collections Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry B Posted 14 April , 2020 Share Posted 14 April , 2020 I have a few WWI items, badges, helmets, binos etc, and these three swagger sticks which are that period, though unless hallmarked can be hard to date precisely, one each for the Welsh, RWF and the SWB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark holden Posted 14 April , 2020 Share Posted 14 April , 2020 Keep them coming one and all this thread is awesome in the breadth of Forum Pals collecting themes. Simply wonderful items from helmets to diaries (and everything in between) they all have a tale to tell. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 14 April , 2020 Share Posted 14 April , 2020 British SBR and haversack. Amazingly the rubber exhalation flutter valve survives. Filter tin by Boots the chemist. A real sleeper but fragile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wainfleet Posted 14 April , 2020 Share Posted 14 April , 2020 A couple of helmets to the same regiment. I have no way of knowing but I suspect this one with first pattern liner and brazed-on badge is to the 1st battalion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wainfleet Posted 14 April , 2020 Share Posted 14 April , 2020 The 6th Battalion, 12th Division. I bought this at Nottingham Arms Fair in the mid-80s, subsequently parted with it and was delighted to see it pop up again on a dealer's website about 20 years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Haselgrove Posted 15 April , 2020 Share Posted 15 April , 2020 Again, many thanks to all who have contributed such beautifully preserved and historically important items to this thread. I thought some of you, particularly the Welsh collectors, might like to see a German Model 1907 water bottle in my collection. Originally this model was manufactured in aluminium but, starting in Oct. 1914, sheet metal was used as is the case with this example. This example was made by J. Hirschhorn that name being stamped in small letters on the screw top. Interestingly, that company made, amongst other things, pressure lamps. This bottle was picked up during the assault on Pilchem Ridge, 31st July 1917. On the back the bottle is marked Cpl B Pennell 10th Welsh 38th (Welsh) Division. Regards, Michael. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
museumtom Posted 15 April , 2020 Share Posted 15 April , 2020 A bit of everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLD ROBIN HOOD Posted 15 April , 2020 Share Posted 15 April , 2020 Greetings from the Royal Forest of Sherwood. Here are a few Territorial Titles that I have just found in a box, I had totally forgotten that had them. So being stuck at home has done some good. Old Robin Hood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWF1967 Posted 15 April , 2020 Share Posted 15 April , 2020 6 hours ago, OLD ROBIN HOOD said: Greetings from the Royal Forest of Sherwood. Here are a few Territorial Titles that I have just found in a box, I had totally forgotten that had them. So being stuck at home has done some good. Old Robin Hood. Very nice, well worth a rummage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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