Original British WWII Scarce Merchant Navy Recruitment Poster - 19¾ x 29½” Manufacture Type_Original Items It retains its original cotton

It retains its original cotton lining

The brass mounted nickel plated steel scabbard is nice

and this example is marked in the center with a blue 58th Shoulder board with an ordnance bomb

S Army issued fatigue hat

with 53 bodies found and 297 others claimed as killed

Original British WWII Scarce Merchant Navy Recruitment Poster - 19¾ x 29½” Manufacture Type_Original Items It retains its original cottonOriginal Item. Only One Available. Merchant seamen crewed the ships of the British Merchant Navy which kept the United Kingdom supplied with raw materials, arms, ammunition, fuel, food and all of the necessities of a nation at war throughout World War II literally enabling the country to defend itself. In doing this, they sustained a considerably greater casualty rate than almost every other branch of the armed services and suffered great hardship.