Champagne cork associated with Lieutenant-Commander John Harold McGivering. Formerly tied with string to a key TOA0153. With a label: '9/4/44. Ground nut chop, champagne from Birsao etc at the Minalls, Freetown. Peter, the lady who gave me the note-case and the other chap. The key is supposed to be that of the UAC building that was destroyed by fire this year.' The champagne was provided by friends, the Minalls, to celebrate Midshipman McGivering's twenty-first birthday, while he was stationed in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1944.