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Description: | An inscribed 231mm length of copper alloy strip with closely-spaced transverse ridges. The object has been identified by Andy Robertshaw of the Royal Logistics Corps Museum as being a cast copper driving band from an artillery shell. One side of the band is inscribed E.J.C. JAMES 179203 M.T.A.S.C.C. (Motor Transport Army Service Corps).The driving band appears to have been stamped to form a souvenir. One can perhaps surmise that the shell may have been German and that it exploded close to Pte James and that he recovered this fragment. It is known that James served abroad from 1915 and survived the First World War but records of the Army Service Corps are not complete making it less easy to trace this man further.How the object arrived at its findspot is quite unknown.
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