WW2 Pattern Small Size Escape Compass . Major Instone Collection

Small brass compass 18 mm across, Marked compass points spinner .  Top glass clear

Developed by Christopher Clayton Hutton at MI9 .  Would have been fitted in an escape kit 

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