WW2 Escape Battle Dress Jacket Buckle Compass . Major Instone Collection

Plated battledress buckle . The central section with a central spike and covering protective slider . The rear fitted bar compass absent .Together with a passport size photo of Major Instone

Developed by Christopher Clayton Hutton at M.I 9 . Would have been fitted to a Battledress jacket 

Part of this Historically important collection of escape items that belonging to Major .G. Instone . Military Medal winner for escape and evasion from Dunkirk in 1940 through France and Spain being held in prison there and then back to the U.K . He then saw service with the Intelligence Corps and M.I 9