£300 - £350
A black metal uniform trunk, the lid bearing the name "Condr. N.C.H. Bristow. No 7663363", containing everything brought back from India by Condr Bristow, RAOC and IAOC at the end of WWII, including tropical uniform , webbing revolver holster and pouch, kit bag, training manuals, military documents, "Guide to Military Urdu", "Saihgal's Hindustani Manual 1941-42", Service and Pay Books, military motor drivers licence in English and Hindustani, paper ephemera (the Indian Army Ordnance Corps Gazette Nov 1944, guides to Agra and Delhi, film leaflet in French for Errol Flynn in "Capitaine Blood", unused air mail letters and envelopes, "The Last Will and Testament of Adolf Hitler " etc), personal effects (pipe, clasp knife, dog tags, etc) in a Bassetts Liquorice Allsorts tin, War Medals (1939-45 and Burma stars, War Medal and Defence medal in remains of box), RAOC cap badges and buttons, 2 photograph albums of views and everyday life in India, several boxes of photographic negatives, bundles of personal letters, tennis raquet in press, pair of exercise clubs, pair of oriental slippers with turned up toes, etc, etc, the lid of the trunk secured by H.S. Ordnance Department padlock. A fascinating archive worthy of careful examination. £300-350
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