WW2 Escape Fly Button Two Part Compass . Major Instone Collection

Blackened two part fly button compass . The lower button with a central spike to balance the upper compass button

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

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