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OR's, SB, Khaki, Gabardine, Ptn 1918
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 65/U/385
Single-breasted, V necked, four button jacket with two patch and flap buttoned pockets below the waist, fall step collar capable of being buttoned across with a small composition or horn button, false cuffs indicated by stitching and a loose belt fastening with two buttons in front. All buttons RAF gilding metal with eagle and crown. Lined throughout in off-white cotton.
Hat/Cap, All Ranks
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, X001-3952
Within a voided, vertical, oval wreath of laurel, with roses at 3 o'clock and 9 o'clock, WL at 12 o'clock and a scroll at base reading ORA ET LABORA, a draped female figure of Victory with a laurel wreath in her right hand. Horizontal pin fastening at rear. Also used as a brooch on WAAC clothing by former members of WL.
FS, Officer's, Ptn 1914
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 78/U/921
Khaki, whipcord, low crowned folding cap with turned up front peak and band, folded and turned up, secured by hooks at sides and fastening with two very small metal buttons at front. On front, left side the Officers' metal cap badge from which the attachment lugs have been removed. Signs of stitches on the cap by which it was attached.
OR's, Ptn 1939
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 72/U/779
Black leather, lace-up shoe with five pairs of lace holes. The forward upper of the shoe formed from a rounded panel of leather stitched to the upper sides with three rows of stitching. This top panel extends backwards to become the tongue of the shoe beneath the lacing. Lined in pale buff leather. With leather sole and blocked heel both reinforced with iron nails.
Distinguished Service Order
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, X003-9869
A silver-gilt cross with curved arms, enamelled white with gold edges bearing centrally a red medallion within a laurel wreath; the obverse mounted with a crown, the reverse with GRI crowned in gilt metal. With a simple double ring suspender to a bar decorated with laurel leaves. The same bar, with a pin at rear, at the top of the ribbon. Ribbon - crimson with bright blue edges.
Casualty, WWI
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, X006-9006
Large circular, bronze plaque bearing a figure of Victory with a trident in her right hand and extending a laurel wreath with her left above an entablature bearing JOHN ANTHONY McCUDDEN in relief letters. Standing beside her a lion. At base a lion fighting an eagle. Round the rim HE DIED FOR FREEDOM AND HONOVR with two dolphins and a spray of oak leaves. Designed by Mr (later Sir) Edward Carter Preston.
Distinguished Service Order
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 1988/0591/D
A silver-gilt cross with curved arms, enamelled white with gold edges bearing centrally a red medallion within a laurel wreath; the obverse mounted with a crown, the reverse with GRI crowned in gilt metal. With a simple double ring suspender to a bar decorated with laurel leaves. The same bar, with a pin at rear, at the top of the ribbon. Ribbon - crimson with bright blue edges.
Sam Browne
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, X004-1871
Narrow, brown leather strap fitted with a brass stud and pierced leather tab at its rear end and shaped to a pierced point at its forward end. Attached to this end a short strap with single pin brass buckle at one end and a brass stud and pierced leather tab at the other. The strap fitted with two leather loops, one fixed and one running.
Maxim, Ground Use, 7.92mm
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, X004-9917
This type of belt with the extended metal tabs was used on ground machineguns only, not air machineguns. Woven cotton webbing belt rivetted together with brass separating strips between each of the tubes which accepts a single round of ammunition. Every third spacer is of an extended type designed so that the noses of the bullets do not get damaged or the round pushed backwards in the belt.
KD, Officer's, Cross-over Type, Ptn 1930s
Aircraft & Exhibits, London, Hangar Two, 83/U/1048
Khaki drill knee length shorts with button fly. Two side pockets opening vertically down the side seems. The waistband fashioned as two extended straps which cross-over each other; the right one passing through a slit in the left side and thence to a pin buckle, the left one passing through a retainer on the right side and thence to a pin buckle (both buckles missing).