Hi Guys,
I got a very nice Close Combat Clasp in silver other day. Just wondering weather they made or have you seen the clasps in a cloth version for all three grades.

Picked up these things awhile back. I’m not completely sure who issued them or what they were used for.

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Hey folks, wanted to ask a questions about daggers since I have come across one recently and do not know much about them in general. There are several issues that I would like to address with the dagger but not do any damage to the blade in the meantime. The handle and guard are a little loose and I would imagine this is due to the handle perhaps shrinking over time? I did not want to try and remove the pommel but it seems like something very thin could fix the looseness in the handle and blade guard. Also, the fit in the scabbard is a little tight and I am not keeping it in the scabbard at the moment as I do not want to put marks on the face of the blade. The dagger overall isn’t that valuable in the scope of things but I do want to care for it correctly and preserve it. I don’t keep a lot for my personal collection outside of firearms but am keeping this one around. Thanks for any input or suggestions that you may offer.

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hello one more time.
i’m in possesion of an attached scabbrad.in the first moment i thought that this is the reworked and longer HJ scabbard,buut my daggers are in max 3cm.the combination looks old and is there a chance that this is a regulamination scabbrd?
best regards

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Evening gents, I have just come across what appears to be a very scarce and period original image of an SS Totenkopf dog handler?
Now, if it is what I think it is, it is an image of evil! I suspect this is a KZ/KL guard and his dog, the true animal not being the one on four legs!! The Agfa Borvira stamps to the rear look to be correct in, even shades and their levels (not wonky hand stamped fakes) and I think in the top left corner it is dated Dachau 1944?? but my German writing translation skills are not brilliant! Your thoughts would be greatly appreciated, Leon.

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There never seems anywhere on forums to discuss the less ‘glamorous’ wars - such as Northern Ireland. We veterans of that war are often overlooked by the media, we have no national war memorial of any significance to that conflict - the only one I am aware of is a rather small affair at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire. We never even had a campaign medal, all we got was a bar to the General Service Medal. It is now some 45 years since I did my first tour, I have written two books on the subject - more for the benefit of my former comrades than anything. But if I may, I would like to share with you all a few of the documents and newspaper cuttings that were passed on to me when I was gathering information for my second book which covered the Andersonstown tour in 1971/72.

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At the top left of the first image is an intelligence report into the weapons find which I had during one of our searches. The photo of the weapons was taken by a police officer from the RUC after we brought the weapons back to our BHQ at the Andersonstown RUC station. The newspaper cutting of the ‘large gelly find’ concerns an explosives cache discovered by my mate Bdr Brian ‘Horace’ Corser of 2 Troop - while he was out on one of his ’sneaky-beaky’ patrols on the Glenhill park estate. Our battery was the first unit to mount foot patrols in Andersonstown, all other units that had previously served there considered it far-too dangerous - and would only carry out operations from inside an armoured vehicle.

On the night in question, Horace had decided to return to base. The PYE radio’s were playing up, and the battery in the A42 manpack radio was running flat - there was the very real danger that they would lose contact with base completely. The patrol was moving through some gardens in Glenhill park and were just about to cross a road, when Horace heard a car approaching. The patrol took cover behind a hedge by the side of a house and waited… A car drew up directly opposite, and a man got out and walked around to the boot. The other occupant went inside a house and waited. Provo terrorist Joe Rice, lifted out a long plastic bag - and upon seeing this, Horace quietly walked up behind him… ‘I quietly opened the gate and walked up behind him and tapped him on the shoulder. I said to him something like… "What have you got there mate?" he quickly turned around and looked at me with an expression of total shock on his face. He muttered to me: "gelly" and then promptly dropped the lot on the floor at my feet. I must have presented a right sight to him, because I was all blacked-up with camo paint and armed with a .303 sniping rifle.’

Shortly afterwards there was an exchange of gunfire as the Provo’s backup opened up on the patrol. The Provo’s themselves saw the funny side of the incident, and in the next issue of their magazine:‘The Volunteer,’ they published a cartoon of the incident. Horace added the stripes and glasses to the cartoon illustrated here. Even in times of adversity there could be moments of humour! The next image is of some IRA propaganda which was aimed at our battery. We had built up a reputation of being fair-handed when dealing with the locals, and the Provo’s went out of their way to discredit us. The piece about the use of ‘helicopters’ refers to an operation we mounted which caught them completely off guard. They reckoned that the only way we could have pulled it off was by being brought in by air - but that really wasn’t the case.

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The last two images are of our regimental Part 1 orders for March 1972 after we returned to England. The glowing praise heaped upon our regiment is a testament to the way we carried out that tour of duty under the most trying of circumstances. The letter also shows that at least some of the locals appreciated our efforts. Click on images to enlarge, and then click again for maximum size.

Cheers,
Steve.

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Hello all, I recently inherited a Luger that was brought back from WWII by my great uncle. It has several markings which should be visible in the picks below. It is either nickel or chrome plated and all parts are stamped with 27. I have been able to discern that it is stamped with the waffen amt marking as well as several crown N markings. The P.S. 203 marking has lead me to believe it was originally a Sachsen Police Luger ? Any help at narrowing down a date would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again.

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Picked up today and the seller had done some research, it seems to be for private Thomas Evans of the 9th battalion the welsh regiment. He did not get the full SWB record so I do not know why he was discharged or get his star medal roll. I have been told you can get free access to ancestry in your local library otherwise I will have to wait until their next free offer.

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