pre 1953 (probably wartime) embroidered badge of the East Lancs Reg. Framed and glazed in perspex, good strong colours on a hesian / course cotton type material base, centre measures 210 x 180mm, overal frame size measures 360 x 310mm
3d value banknote, issued to Prisoner of War Camp 282 , Ink written camp of issue 282 on face, some wear with creases and marks, rubber stamped on reverse Dec 1946
During the Second World War, an Italian prisoner of war camp (no. 282) was located near Brissenden Green, the precise location is believed to be Honghorst House, the camp was associated with another at Woodchurch, near Tenterden in Kent