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Hiya, I was at Nottingham visiting family and friends for a few days last week, and a few dealers and antique shops too. My nephew had agreed to dig his mums aunts garden to get it ready for a small wall to be built...he turned up lots of broken china, broken animal bones, and accumulator batteries...then found this enamel plate...:) which he gifted to me...soon to be on its way to @Fred Karno's Army, along with the bottle, the spoon and the toothpaste tube...I think the tube is 1930's...but exactly the same tube as used in WW1 with the top removed anyway, I found an old advert for it dated 1917......:)

During a recent trip to the British army dump site permission of mine, a fair few Long Lee butt plates were, once again, recovered. The tang on these butt plates are nearly always marked with unit identification letters and numbers. However, during cleaning, one was marked with something totally unexpected and caused a huge amount of excitement. This is how they looked after an initial clean. And then after something a little more intensive.... The tangs usually look like this... But NOT this one !!! After some frantic research on the internet, the descendants of Major Green were traced, and I have now spoken to his great nephew. I was pleased to find that he was as excited as I was and is soon going to be in possession of a small piece of his family's history. QOYDIY - Queen's Own Yorkshire Dragoons Imperial Yeomanry The history of each item I recover is so very important, and people sometimes find it hard to understand why I don't sell anything I recover. This is exactly why. Every relic recovered is a little piece of history, not something to be sold to the highest bidder. They are recovered and preserved so the history can be shared with future generations or, in this case, members of a serviceman's family.

Just read this...over 1 year later. A great story with an even better ending. I often sit in my "bunker" with history all around me & wish that they could talk. Especially personal items, such as an M1916 Stahlhelm with "Meyer" painted inside. Who was he? Was he KIA or a survivor? Where are his kinfolk? How did it get from there to here?

Cheers Ian! Thanks

Very, Very Nice Tony...and named, a superb item....well done! Best Wishes...Ian

And the second one is a Belgian FN49 Bayonet. No worries Desert Rat it's all good info and now they're in the forum they may help someone else with identification all adds to the knowledgebase!

Hi All My little collection has had quite a few additions to it over the last few months, so thought I'd give you a look at what it looks like now. Please note, all items are totally FFE/inert/deactivated and not capable of being made 'live' again. Everything abides by current firearms legislation and was recovered legally, with fully documented landowners permission.

Interesting items from a bygone era.one mans rubbish is another mans treasure.