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aerospace transport: aircraft
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aerospace transport: aircraft: flying boat
armament t&e, ammunition: shell(fragment)
backboard
badge, German: War Award:Auxiliary Cruisers War Badge
badge, German: War Award: Blockade Runners War Badge
badge, German: War Award: Coast Artillary, War Badge
badge, German: War Award: Destroyers, War Badge
badge, German: War Award: E-Boats, War Badge
badge, German: War Award: High Seas Fleet Badge
badge, German: War Award: Kleinkampfmittel War Badge
badge, German: War Award: Minesweepers & Anti-Submarines War Badge
badge, German: War Award: Narvik War Badge
badge, German: War Award: U-Boats Combat Clasp
badge, German: War Award: U-Boats War Badge
banana
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ceremonial artifact: banner
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medal, Accessory: Atlantic Star Ribbon
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medal, British: campaign medal: India Service Medal 1939-45
medal, British: campaign medal: Merchant Navy Service Medal 1939-1946
medal, British: campaign medal: Second World War 1939-45: 1939-45 Star
medal, British: campaign medal: Second World War 1939-45: Africa Star
medal, British: campaign medal: Second World War 1939-45: Air Crew Europe Star
medal, British: campaign medal: Second World War 1939-45: Atlantic Star
medal, British: campaign medal: Second World War 1939-45: Burma Star
medal, British: campaign medal: Second World War 1939-45: Defence Medal
medal, British: campaign medal: Second World War 1939-45: France and Germany Star
medal, British: campaign medal: Second World War 1939-45: Italy Star
medal, British: campaign medal: Second World War 1939-45: Pacific Star
medal, British: campaign medal: Second World War 1939-45: War Medal
medal, British: Gallantry Award: Albert Medal(2nd Class)
medal, British: long service award: Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Royal Navy 1937-47
medal, German: Gallantry Award: Iron Cross 2nd Class 1939-45
medal, Norweigen: campaign medal: King Haakam VII Freedom Medal, 1940-45
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surveying & navigational t&e: card, compass
surveying & navigational t&e: compass
surveying & navigational t&e: wallet, escape and evasion(six)
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timekeeper: chronometer, marine(1 day)
timekeeper: chronometer, marine(2 day)
toilet article: towel, hand
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water transport: fighting vessel: battlecruiser (Germany)
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water transport: fighting vessel: corvette (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, light (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: destroyer (HMS)
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water transport: service vessel: hospital ship
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water transport: steam vessel: steamship
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water transport accessory: anchor
water transport accessory: backboard
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Bone, Muirhead
Bonner Fahnenfabrik
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Cole, Leslie
Cundall, Charles Ernest
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J T Dobbins Ltd
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Mackennal, Edgar Bertram
May, Robert W.
Mayger, Chris
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Metcalfe, Percy
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Admiral Graf Spee (1934)
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Bamora (1914)
Barpeta (1914)
Bhima (1939)
Bismarck (1939)
Cameronia (1920)
Campbeltown (1919)
Canara (1942)
Capetown Castle (1938)
Chanda (1944)
Chyebassa (1942)
Cossack (1937)
Delhi (1918)
Dido (1939)
Eagle (1918)
Empire Creek [British]
Exeter (1929)
FW 19
Ganges 1930
Gloucester (1937)
Gneisenau (1936)
H.M.S. Warspite
Hambledon (1939)
Hood (1918)
Howe (1940)
Indus 1940
Jhelum 1936
Jumna 1929
King George V (1939)
Lady Shirley 1937
Lancastria (1922)
Lanner fl.1941
Melbourne Star [SS]
Nelson (1925)
Newfoundland (1941)
Ohio 1940
Orford (1928)
Orion (1932)
Orna 1938
Ozarda (1940)
Prague [SS]
Pretoria Castle (1938)
Prince of Wales (1939)
Renown (1895)
Rheingold 1922 [SS]
Ringwood 1940 (HMS: netlayer)
Rorqual (1936)
Saltash 1918 (HMS)
Salvia (1940)
San Demetrio 1938
Saugor 1928
Scharnhorst (1936)
Shippigan (1941)
Sikh (1937)
Sutlej (1940)
Tirpitz (1939)
U-Boat 249 [German navy]
U-Boat 776 [German navy]
U-Boat 1023 [German navy]
U3 1935 (Germany)
Valiant (1914)
Vasna (1917)
Victory (1765)
Wallace (1918)
Warwick Castle (1930)
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Allen, Charles Henry
Atterbury, Osborne
Bagot, Walter Theodore
Baltic Trading Company Ltd
Barrett, George Christopher
Baxter, Clifford Rowland
Board, B G, Lieut
Bond, R H A, Cmdfl
Booker, G. F.
Bradley, Frederick Cyril
British Fleet
British India Steam Navigation Company Limited
Burch, Ronald James
Burge, Charles Ralph Ormsley
Charles George Wilkinson
Civil Engineers, Institution of
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Commander Richard Yorke Gleadowe, Richard Yorke
Cooper, Archibald Frederick
Cowan, Walter Henry
Cunningham, Andrew Browne
Curram, Ralph Herbert Thomas
Dickson, John
Donald, C. H. A.
Donitz, Adm Karl
Downie, Basil Nugent
DSM, William Tilley Elmslie
Ellis, Walter Herbert
Ellis, William Arthur
Fitzpatrick, James Leo
Force H
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Gamman, Astley E.
Garrard & Co. Ltd
German Navy
Gibson, Alfred Tierney
Golding, Douglas William Walter
Hamilton, Louis Henry Keppel
Harvey, William
Hood, Chief E. R. A. Ralph
Hornby, Wyndham Mark Phipps
Italian Navy
James Nourse Ltd, London
Japanese Navy
Jones, Harold Spencer
Jones, Maurice Harold
King George V
King George VI
Lee, Philip Gordon,
Lewis, Clarissa
Mack, Phillip
Mayger, Chris
McGill, Harry Sydney
Merrington, Constructor A. J.
Miles, Alfred
Moore, Harry Allinson
Nazi Party
Newman, Alfred William
Nunn, Ronald
Oliver, Robert Don
Ormsby, Edmond Oswald, Capt RCN, E
Pipe, David John Alwyne
Pipe, John Henry
Postel, Warren Fred
Purcell-Buret, Theobald John Claud
Revill, Joseph Henry
Robertson, Wilfred James Cameron
Rostin, Erwin Arnold Martin Wilhelm
Royal Navy
Savage, William Alfred
Sherbrook, R St Vincent, Rear-Ad
Sir Max Kennedy Horton, Max
Smith, Philip Stroud Nisbet
Stott, J M, SPO
Sumpton, Robert William
Swayne, Harold Hazelgrove
Taylor, Frederick Henry
Tempest, Harold Arthur
Tew, Albert Walter
Tovey, John Cronyn
Trusler, Charles
Union-Castle Line
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White, R F P, Lt Cdr RNVR
Woodford, George William
Worth, Harold John
Worth, Peter
Worth, Peter Reginald Glenhome
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War Medal 1939-45 (War medal)
Defence Medal 1939-45 (War medal)
1939-45 Star (War medal)
War Medal 1939-45 (War medal)
War Medal 1939-45 (War medal)
1939-45 Star (War medal)
Atlantic Star (War medal)
War Medal 1939-45 (War medal)
War Medal 1939-45 (War medal)
Defence Medal 1939-45 (War medal)
War Medal 1939-45 (War medal)
Defence Medal 1939-45 (War medal)
India Service Medal 1939-45 (War medal)
War Medal 1939-45 (War medal)
1939-45 Star (War medal)
1939-45 Star (War medal)
Italy Star (War medal)
Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, Royal Navy 1930-36 (Long service award)
Africa Star (War medal)
1939-45 Star (War medal)
Atlantic Star (War medal)
E-Boats, War Badge (War badge)
British Empire Medal: For Meritorious Service (civil) 1937-48 (Order)
Destroyers, War Badge (War badge)
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