Here's our digest for the last week. We uploaded just a few manuals but quite a lot of archive material so it made sense to combine the two emails into one. We're also throwing around a few ideas to help grow our subscribers and support the charity further so we have a small poll at the end of this email / post to find out a little more about why you subscribe to our Patreon page. Please do take the time to answer and leave a comment if you want to say more.

Manual Monday

Fewer in number than usual but some great content here with some scarce examples being shared: the Field Service Pocket Book from 1913 is a particular highlight as we bought it to fill a gap in the archive, the Training of an Infantry Company book is packed full of detail and needs more people to see how the British Army was being prepared in 1914. Good early-First World War content!

And don't miss the Class D* Vickers High-Velocity handbook! A powerful Vickers!

Field Service Pocket Book 1913

Infantry Training, Volume I, Infantry Platoon Weapons, Pamphlet No. 11, Trained Soldiers (All Arms), Exercises in Handling of Weapons, 1955.

Handbook of the Vickers 12.7 mm. (0.5-inch) Automatic Gun (Class D*) M.7. Temporary Edition.

The Training of an Infantry Company (Second Edition)

Friday Fonds

Some more propaganda leaflets this week and some miscellaneous forms and documents from mainly the Second World War but earlier pieces too, all of which are named to individuals. The first of which is a prisoner of war and includes a letter from his Battery Sergeant Major to his wife telling her of his capture and how it happened!

Papers. 1462195 Gunner DEXTER, Reginald Richard

Papers. Eric THOMPSON, Royal Tank Corps.

Papers. 14872539, Rifleman OVERY, London Rifle Brigade.

Papers. HC Simpkins, RAMC, 72467700

Army Form B104-81A. Notice of wounded.

Army Form I.1247B. Venereal Disease Treatment Card.

Propaganda leaflet. Avvertimento! Urgento. All poplazione civile della Tripolitania. Preparatevi ad Evacuare

Airgraph. Christmas 1944

Propaganda leaflet. Die Amerikaner haben sich nicht geandert.

Propaganda leaftet. Falsche Sicherheit

Propaganda leaflet. Novembertage 1942. Der Grossraum ist zu gross gerworden

Propaganda leaflet. Die Rundstedt-Offensive.

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