Lot 5799

Description

British WWI wire cutters, with folding handles, stamped on one handle by maker, 'Chater Lea Ld/1917', and on both handles the War Department broad arrow and 20; also large WWI brass button stick used to protect uniform when cleaning buttons, stamped with letter R on one side; Ordnance Survey map of War Department Land on Salisbury Plain 'Showing W.D. Boundaries', revised 1901-4 and published 1909 and railways revised to August 1912; another map, Valenciennes 12, Edition 2, Belgium, 2nd Edition War Office April 1916; also b&Ww WWI aerial photos (6) of battlefields, one identified as Ablaincourt and the others of France including the Somme area. Good - fine. (8)