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Summary: toy soldier, collection 8 3cm tin Dinky Toy soldiers together with home-made representations of policemen and emergency vehicles,and a lead model plane in a rectangular tin formerly containing Rhodesian tobacco, part of the equipment used for Civil Defence Corps training by Lt Col J H Edmond, head warden for the Borough of Lymington, incorporating Hordle, Milford-on-Sea, New Milton and Lymington and Pennington, Hampshire, during World War II and the 1940s and 1950s

Summary: Col Edmond used a map of Lymington made from a white bed sheet on which black tapes were pinned to represent roads.