1940 dated pair of hip flasks John and Eric Troon (pg1 SAS)

Here we have a nice matching pair of 1940 dated 12 oz hip flasks presumably owned by two brothers  John Troon and Eric Troon. perhaps given as a gift before going off to war.

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One has a dent. Would make a great project to research these two brothers and hopefully find out their history.

£45 for the pair

  Brass Oil Cleaning kit from a.303 Rifle (pg1 SAS)

Here we have an oil cleaning kit for a .303 rifle.

B   A 5

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£45

 20mm Shell Casing (pg1 SAS)

Here we have a shell casing dated 1945.

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£35

 Mid 19th Century Cordite Powder Bucket (pg1 SAS)

Here we have a mid 19th century Royal Navy powder bucket.

"Made of a cork frame and painted, with leather handles.

These were used by the a powder boy or powder monkey who manned naval artillery guns as a member of a warship's crew, primarily during the Age of Sail in ships like HMS Victory.

 His chief role was to ferry gunpowder from the powder magazine in the ship's hold to cannons, either in bulk or as cartridges, to minimize the risk of fires and explosions The function was usually fulfilled by boy seamen of 12 to 14 years of age.

Powder monkeys were usually boys or young teens, selected for the job for their speed and height.

 They were short and could move more easily in the limited space between decks and would also be hidden behind the ship's gunwale, keeping them from being shot by enemy ships sharpshooters. 

These powder monkeys held no official naval rank on the ships that they sailed on. 

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£395

 WW2 Gas Mask (pg1 SAS)

Here we have a WW2 gas mask by L & B R Co Ltd.

HO 221           12 - 42          162           4/43

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Sorry now out of stock more wanted please contact me

£85

 Thompson Submachine Gun Magazine holder (pg1 SAS)

Here we have a magazine holder for a Thompson submachine gun.

This piece is in good original condition .

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 A .303 Gun Mount (pg1 SAS)

Here we have a gun mount for a .303 gun machine gun. This piece is in good original condition . I believe this will also fit the 30 calibre, this peace is for attaching the guns to vehicles like Jeeps.

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 £180

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Here is a hand made reproduction of an enigma machine An Enigma machine is a famous encryption machine used by the Germans during WWII to transmit coded messages. This does not function and is for display only although some of the keys light up when the switch is turned. Comes complete with all the documents shown.

 An Enigma machine allows for billions and billions of ways to encode a message, making it incredibly difficult for other nations to crack German codes during the war — for a time the code seemed unbreakable. 

Alan Turing and other researchers exploited a few weaknesses in the implementation of the Enigma code and gained access to German codebooks, and this allowed them to design a machine called a Bombe machine, which helped to crack the most challenging versions of Enigma.

 Some historians believe that the cracking of Enigma was the single most important victory by the Allied powers during WWII.

 Using information that they decoded from the Germans, the Allies were able to prevent many attacks.

However, to avoid Nazi suspicion that they had insight to German communications, the Allies had to allow some attacks to be carried out despite the fact that they had the knowledge to stop them.

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Here is a really nice Gun sighting Telescope made by the Canadian Kodak Company used extensively during the battle of the Atlantic on the deck guns of 1" to 4.5 " on both Anti Aircraft  and Anti shipping roles. Fitted to Corvettes, and other smaller escort ships. It has its original keys for the box but appears to missing the rubber eye pads. The optics work well and the zoom or focus moves as it should.

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Shown above a Flower Class Corvette one of the most numerous Escort ships of WWII which fought in the brutal Battle of the Atlantic protecting Convoys from the US.

 £200

This is a British Army issue signalling torch complete with red and green filters.

Used for sending morse signals to other units in the field.

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£45

£150

Officers on the bridge of an escorting British destroyer stand watch for enemy submarines

This instrument is used to determine the distance of another ship and so was particularly useful for ships sailing in convoy to ensure that they remained far enough apart. The distance meter has a black metal body with a bakelite handle and a rubber eyepiece cup. There is a glass folding cover for the two scales on the side. The top scale is marked ‘CABLES’ and has a non-linear scale from 1 to 10. The bottom scale is marked ‘HEIGHT IN FEET’ and has a non-linear scale from 30 to 150. The meter works on the double image principle. To use it, the observer sets the height scale to the known height of the ship being observed, then looks though the eyepiece and turns the knob on the front until the two images seen through the eyepiece coincide. The distance of the ship from the observer is then indicated on the scale marked ‘CABLES’
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Used by both the RN and Merchant Navy during WWII.

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Convoy Battles of World War II occurred when convoys of cargo ships assembled for mutual defence, and were attacked by enemy submarines, surface ships, and/or aircraft. Most were in the North Atlantic from 1939 to 1943, and involved attacks by U-boat wolf packs. Convoy battles also occurred in the Arctic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and western Pacific Ocean.

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This is a superb and extremely rare Wartime generator set for charging batteries for radios in the combat zone. The difference with this set is that it is steam powered, this unique set can be operated by heating the boiler with any fuel that comes to hand including the box it was dropped in. Invaluable in situations where no petrol is available it can literary be powered by anything flammable. The set is complete with everything needed to make it work and is in great condition.

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£2495

Here is a an Anti Aircraft mount for the MG 42 in good condition its complete and operates as it should with free movement of all the parts.

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Throat Microphone Type 2 MK II (pg1 SAS)

This is a British Army Microphone throat low level type 2 MK II for use with Wireless Set WS38. Stores reference ZA19734. 1939-1945 period.

£125

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Mount Number 1

£1200

Mount Number 2

Shown above mount one                                                                                                                                                 Shown above mount two                               

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Below an M63 fitted with a 50 call MG

Find this on the armaments pages link here

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2 pieces available £120 each

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This is a really nice clean set of webbing in 1937 pattern for a British  Officer.

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£275

The "high angle gun" is a British naval term for a anti-aircraft 80 degree elevation gun

Here is superb telescope for a high angle gun. The Optics work perfectly and it comes in its original box. It is the illuminated version with cross hairs.

Made by W Ottway and Co Ltd  Ealing . High angle guns were used in an anti aircraft role for shooting down both aircraft and Zeppelins.

£275

This is a heavy piece over seas buyers contact us for a shipping quote

This is a bag that carries a Bren when broken down into component parts. original in great condition.

£75

Here we have a Light Coloured Gun Holster and Ammo Pouch

The Holster is Dated 1943 and was produced by Craft Ltd

£55

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£125

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A veteran of Wo

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£175

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This is the Mk II Version of the Brodie Helmet which served the British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II. It is Stamped with the manufacturers mark BMB (Briggs Motor Body Ltd) showing that this is a British Helmet and it is Dated 1940

Several Commonwealth nations, such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, produced their own versions of the MK II, which can be distinguished from those made in Britain.

£195

The following items were purchased personally from collectors in Ypres Belgium and all came from the First World War Battles that took place in and around Ypres. They will be supplied with certificates of authenticity.

The British and common wealth soldiers suffered a staggering one million casualties in the Ypres area during world war one. The Menen gate memorial seen left contains the names of 55,000 men who have no know graves and still lie buried in the surrounding fields.

 Each Day at 8 pm the last post is played by local buglers as a tribute to the men who gave their lives in this most brutal of wars. The whole city of Ypres including the Cathedral were completely destroyed.

Ypres was a renowned medieval town that had once thrived as a centre for textiles.

In WWI, Ypres became synonymous with destruction, trench warfare, poisonous gas and military stalemate.

The Germans swiftly advanced through Belgium in their drive to Paris but failed to take the Ypres salient. It was in this area that three Battle of Ypres took place and nearby the battle of Passchendale . What now appears to be a medieval town belies the fact that most of Ypres was rebuilt after World War One had finished.

In the late C17th the fortifications of the town had been modernised by Vauban. He reduced the number of fortified gates into the town from six to four. However, as a result of the major changes that had occurred in society, by 1914, these fortifications had become redundant. Road widening schemes and a new rail line meant that the old gates as designed by Vauban had been reduced to one and many of his ramparts had been pulled down.

On October 13^th 1914, German troops from the 3^rd Reiter Division, part of the German IV Reiter Korps, entered Ypres. After holding the town’s Burgomaster to ransom, they took 75,000 Belgium Francs. The next day, the British Expeditionary Force entered the city – the men from the 3^rd Reiter Division swiftly withdrew in the face of much greater numbers confronting them. The town stayed in the hands of the Allies for the rest of the war.

However, the Germans could not allow a major enemy force to hold land behind the advances of its army. The Germans continued to advance to the north and south of the Ypres Salient and the bulge of Allied men between both represented a major threat to the Germans. 

On November 22^nd 1914,the Germans started a huge artillery barrage against the town. The old Cloth Hall, which dated from 1260, was set on fire and large parts of the medieval town were destroyed. Civilian casualties were high and may have been worse had it not been for the work of Abbé Delaere and Sister Marguerite who both did what they could to help the homeless and wounded. Despite the devastation of the town, some civilians remained. However, many went to the comparative safety of nearby Poperinge

Between April and May 1915, there was a second German barrage against the town. The Cloth Hall was destroyed during this attack along with the historic Collegiate Church of St. Martin. On May 9^th, a decision was taken to compulsorily evacuate all civilians from the town. After this date, Ypres was left to the military.

In 1916, fighting around Ypres quietened (when compared to 1914 and 1915) and some civilians returned to their town. However, the Third Battle of Ypres in 1917 once again made it exceptionally dangerous to live in the town. In 1918, as a result of a major spring offensive, German forces got to the outskirts of the town on its eastern and southeast flanks. However, British forces held firm and the town was not taken. Ypres was only finally safe in late September 1918 when the last German troops withdrew from the Salient.   

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Below the Hooge crater in 1915

This the safety cap which covered the 18Lb Shell it sometimes had a leather carrying strap attached, just recently recovered from the Hooge crater area near Ypres.

Hooge is a small village on the Menin Road (the N8), around two miles east of Ypres. The front line of the Salient was here in 1914 and there was fierce fighting in the area over the next three years, during which the village was totally destroyed. The road from Ypres to Hooge leads past the infamous Hellfire corner, once one of the most dangerous spots in the Salient.

A large crater was blown at Hooge in July 1915 by and underground german mine. This occurred during a time of relative quiet on the British part of the Western Front, when few major assaults were made. Nonetheless, the average casualty rate for the British and Commonwealth forces was around 300 per day. Hooge, having been earlier lost, had been retaken in May 1915. On the 2nd of June, Hooge Chateau was lost.

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This the safety cap which covered the 18Lb Shell it sometimes had a leather carrying strap attached, just recently recovered from the Hooge crater area near Ypres.

This is a model German soldier made from a piece of shrapnel recovered from the Ypres area. 55mm tall.

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This is British Trench tool. This pattern was used from WWI right through WWII.

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A solid brass ash tray made from a 3" Howitzer shell dated 1942.

1942

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Here we have a WW1 Artillery Gun

Number 340

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Here we have a WW1 Artillery Shell

This is Made by Grafton China and Has the Falmouth Crest

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Here we have a Art Nuevo Colonial Hat

£30

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Here we have a Art Nuevo Colonial Scouts Hat

This is Made by Diamond China and Has the Bournemouth Crest

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Here we have a WW1 Military Helmet

This is Made by Arms China and Has the Aberayron Crest

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Here we have a WW1 Military Cap

This is Made by Gemma China and Has the Rothesay Crest

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Here we have a WW1 Military Style Cap

This has the Bruges Crest

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Here we have a WW1 Military Cap

This is Made by Swan China and Has the Aldershot Crest

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£295

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Seen below three members of the 101st airborne at Bastogne.

Here is an armoured window shutter found at Bastogne from the battle in the winter of 1944 it still retains some of its camo paint a superb piece of History.

The Battle of Bastogne was a battle between American and German forces at the town of Bastogne in Belgium from 20th to the 27th December 1944, it was part of a bigger operation, the Battle of the Bulge. The battle is also known as the Siege of Bastogne. The German forces tried to reach Antwerp harbor, their plan was to reach it before the Allies and bring in more forces to hold it and to defeat the nearing Allied forces. All of the roads in the Ardennes mountain's met at the town of Bastogne, that was one of the main reasons why it was so appealing and important for the Germans.

The siege ended on 27 December 1944 when the American forces holding the town were relived George Patton's 3rd Army.

The US 101st airborne band of Brothers were immortalized in this battle the events of which were featured in the series Band of Brothers.

Seen below a German half track.

  £175

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 The SdKfz 251 (Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251) half-track was an armored fighting vehicle designed and first built by the Hanomag Company during World War II. Used by the Wehrmacht, the Sd.Kfz. 251 was designed to transport the panzergrenadiers of the German mechanized infantry corps into battle. Sd.Kfz. 251s were the most widely produced German half-tracks of the war, with at least 15,252 vehicles and variants produced by various manufacturers, and were commonly referred to simply as “Hanomags” by both German and Allied soldiers.

Here is a complete track link from a German SDKFZ half track recovered from Normandy from the battle of 1944. Another superb piece of history from the battle for the liberation of Europe in 1944.

Shown below a German SDFKZ halftrack

 £225

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Here is an ammunition spacer from a German PAK 40 found at Bastogne this piece still has remains of its original yellow paint.

Shown below the German 75mm PAK 40

 £75

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 £175

This superb piece of history is from a Marder 2 tank destroyer recovered from Russia from the Kursk Battlefield and is dated 1942 it includes an attached ice cleat to give added traction in snow and ice. The vicious battle of the winter campaign took place in 1943.

Seen under a Marder II Tank Destroyer on the Eastern front.

A total of 576 German Marder II Tank Destroyer were built between June 1942 June 1943 and a further 75 were converted from damaged Panzer II tanks. The Marder II remained in service with the German Army until the end of the War and served on all fronts.

Armament: 7.5mm Pak 40 anti-tank gun & x1 7.92mm MG
Armour: 35mm Steel
Crew: 3
Dimensions: Length 6.36m / Width 2.28m / Height 2.2m
Weight: 10.8 tonne
Engine: 140hp Maybach 6 cylinder Petrol
Top Road Speed: 40 km/h
Operational Range: 190 km

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Here we have an ammo loader for the MG 34/42 recovered from Normandy. The most advance MG of its time with an extremely rapid fire it caused carnage among the Allied troops in Normandy.

 £75

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 £155

The Panzer II was similar in layout to the earlier Panzer I. Like all German tanks the engine was at the rear, with the drive wheels at the front. The turret was offset slightly to the left and carried one 20mm cannon and one 7.92mm machine gun. The 20mm gun could fire high explosive or amour piercing rounds, so the Panzer II did have a limited ability to fight other tanks.

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 £355

This is a superb piece an armoured window from the legendary Tiger tank, this piece was found in Normandy and almost certainly  came from one of Hitler's  tank battalions held in reserve who could possibly have repelled the invasion had they been brought into action sooner. Apparently Hitler was asleep when the invasion happened and his staff were too frightened to wake him in time too get his personal order to release the tanks. The armoured glass is still intact and quite clear the picture under was taken through the glass of our Spitfire you can see it gives quite a wide field of vision.

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Below the 101st SS Heavy Tank Battalion., Normandy, 1944

THE PANZERKAMPFWAGEN VI or Tiger tank was never a common sight on the battlefields of World War Two.

During the roughly two years that the vehicle was in production, only 1,347 were built – a number that is lower than the monthly production figures for the M4 Sherman and Soviet T34 at the height of the war. Any other fighting machine that was produced in such limited numbers would be quickly forgotten, but the Tiger’s impressive combat performance has left a mark on history that far outweighs the tank’s strategic significance.

Everything about the Tiger was over-engineered (to an almost absurd degree). Its 88-mm main gun was so formidable that shells often blasted straight through enemy tanks and came out the other side. Its amour was so thick a crew could more or less park in front of an enemy anti-tank gun with little fear of harm. Its engine was so powerful that the 54-ton hulk was able to keep pace with tanks less than half its weight.

And in the hands of an expert commander a lone Tiger could knock out dozens of enemy machines in a single engagement.

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 £255

This piece was recovered from Modlin near Warsaw the scene of the Warsaw uprising in August 1944. On the 1st of August , the Polish Home army launched the Warsaw uprising. A column of Totenkopf Tiger tanks were caught up in the fighting and several were lost. The Totenkopf itself was not involved in the suppression of the uprising instead guarding the front lines, and fighting off several Red Army attacks into the cities eastern suburbs. In several Battles near the town on Modin in mid August the Totenkopf , fighting alongside the 5th SS panzer division Wiking and the Herman Goring Panzer division destroyed the Soviet 3rd tank Korps. The terrain around Modin was excellent for armour and the Totenkopf Panzers exploited this too their advantage engaging Soviet tanks from a range where the superiority of the German optics and the 75mm high velocity gun gave the panzers the edge over the Soviets T 34s.

Seen under the Panzer IV Tank

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This track is the same as the above but in slightly better condition.

 £275

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Here we have a Webbing Map Case used by Officers of the British Army

This is a  G.S No.2 Mk.1

This Case is a pocket, open at the top, a single piece of webbing comprising flap and back, with a turn-back to which a pair of male (spigot) halves of press fasteners are fixed.

To this is stitched a “picture frame” of webbing, with a piece of celluloid stitched into the frame. The sides and bottom are gusseted to accommodate several folded maps. The flap is fitted out for pencils and a protractor, exactly like the first issue.

Seen Below on a Army Mannequin

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Stuart tank 7th armored div 1944

£155

Here is a track link from a US Stuart tank this piece was found in Normandy from the battle in the summer of 1945.

The United States Army began operating the new Light Tank M3 vehicles in Mar 1941. Before the Americans took them to combat,  as the United States would not enter WW2 until the end of that year, they exported them to British and Commonwealth forces that were already involved in war with Germany and Italy. The British nicknamed these American light tanks General Stuart, after the American Civil War general; 170 British General Stuart light tanks took part in Operation Crusader in North Africa. British tank crews complained of the ineffective 37-millimeter guns and the short range, although they were liked for the high speed and mechanical reliability. After mid-1942, the British largely kept them out of direct combat missions, using them as reconnaissance, transport, and command vehicles instead. The Russians also received M3 tanks; though they were put in use, the Russians generally disliked these light tanks, citing logistical complications with fuel (use of high octane fuel rather than the more typical diesel usage among Russian tanks), engine sensitivity of impurities in fuel, and use of narrow tracks (which tend to sink into snow more often than tanks with wider tracks).

Production of the M3 light tanks lasted from Mar 1941 through Oct 1943. To alleviate the demand on the aircraft industry, beginning in Oct 1943 the M3 design saw its use of aircraft radial engines change to automobile engines made by Cadillac. This new variant, designed M5, continued to be built through 1944. Over 25,000 vehicles were built during this time. M3 and M5 light tanks remained in service in the United States through the post-WW2 period, and were sold to countries friendly to the United States, such as France, Nationalist China, and Tito's partisan forces in Yugoslavia.