WW2 Original Black & White Press Photo 2 ASTU being inspected in Yorkshire

The original photo is in very good condition and feintly backed stamped Copyright of the Yorkshire Post & Leeds Mercury and The Yorkshire Evening Post, Leeds. It depicts the 2 Army Selection Training Unit being inspected by Brigadier Leslie Wieler, DSO (late KOYLI) and behind him Lieutenant Colonel "Ganga" Dean, MC. Royal Ulster Rifles who was officer commanding of 2 ASTU. Property of Col DR ...  read more

Code: 64090

WW1 Patriotic Silk Embroidered Postcard - Honour to the Aviators RFC / RNAS

A very scarce card with its original card insert. Postally unused but has a message written on it - to my wife. In great condition for age.

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Code: 58093

Large WW2 Original Photograph of Lord Trenchard with 2nd Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, Catterick, of RAF interest too

Lord Trenchard (seated centre) with officer's of the 2nd Battalion RSF, with some of the officers named in pencil on the reverse. Many WW1 decorations and medals evident. This is a very large photo ( circa 30 x 25cm). Photo is sharp with good detail. Some corner creasing and one part of image has been damaged (cracked around the third seated officer on the right), but this has not caught hi...  read more

Code: 53968

WW1 Patriotic Silk Postcard - Right is Might

Postally unused. Made in Paris France. Some mild foxing to front and some stains to reverse but generally in good condition with the conjoined flags of France and Great Britain.

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Code: 64647

WW1 Durham Light Infantry (DLI) BDV Cigarette Card Silk - No 34

Original WW1 silk printed cigarette card. In very good condition for age.

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Code: 64619

17th Lancers Edwardian Coloured Art Postcard - Tucks Oilette No 8871

fro the Regimental Badges and their Wearers Series.
From a painting by Harry Payne. Postally unused, in excellent condition with minimal corner wear and no creases, colours bright. A lovely card.

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Code: 64607

17th Lancers Victorian Coloured Art Postcard - Beamont

Postally unused, image is good but the card overall is in poor condition with multiple heavy creases evident, mainly when viewed from the reverse.

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Code: 64608

Copy photo of Boer War Hospital Ship “S.S. Maine” Fund Raising Medal - Lady Randolph Churchill's Amercian Ladies Hospital Ship

Copy photograph of the ship taken originally circa 1910.

The Maine was originally the Atlantic Transport Line steamer Swansea, renamed in 1899 and lent to the British Government as a hospital ship for use in the Boer War and later off China during the Boxer Rebellion (its officers received the Transport Medal ). Fitted out as a hospital ship in London by Messrs. Fletcher & Son an...  read more

Code: 61389

WW1 Two Rare Preprinted Field Service India Message Postcards for use by Indian Troops at the Front - Hindi

A rare pair of two patterns, one has an army number form A.F. A2042 D (Hindi). The script to the reverse of each is pre-printed Hindi script. No doubt one of my Indian customers will provide us all with a translation! In poor condition and stained. However, not something you come across everyday, and reminds us all of the part played by India on the Western and Eastern Fronts.

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Code: 61937

Original WW1 Patriotic Postcard - the Handy Man ( Royal Navy )

A throw back to the terminology of the second Boer War and the poetic rhetoric of Kipling, the ' Handy Man ' in straw hat against a background of the union flag. Postally unused and in very good condition.

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Code: 57390