United Kingdom. A 1917 Prismatic Verner’s Pattern Compass, by S. Moran & Co Auction with the 94th Anti-Tank Battery

with the 94th Anti-Tank Battery

The unit moved to England in August-September 1942 and was assigned to the Eighth Air Force in September 1942

5 mm (w) x 33 mm (h) inclusive of its integral ring

taken on strength of the 4th Infantry Battalion on May 2nd

the reverse plain with a horizontal pinback

United Kingdom. A 1917 Prismatic Verner’s Pattern Compass, by S. Moran & Co Auction with the 94th Anti-Tank BatteryA working example of a British Verners Pattern Mark VIII Prismatic Marching Compass, comprising a brass body with cardinal points around the exterior with a glass cover bearing a single strip painted with luminescence (potentially radium) and a thin central line. The interior silvered turntable ring is gradated in black numerals from 20 to 340 on the inner circle, with the external ring in individual increments. A prismatic glass viewer folds over the