Wartime exhibition at Heritage Centre...

The uniform is on permanent loan to the heritage association, which runs the centre in the old post office on North Street.

Exhibitions officer James Titley said: “It was donated by Mr Steel and includes a kitbag, a rifle and some signalling equipment.”

He said that during the First World War Bristol fighter planes were built at Marshalls in Gainsborough and tested on an airfield between the town and Beckingham.

“There was also an ammunitions factory at Blyton which was quite famous because it was one of the factories that was entirely manned by women, because all the men were away fighting or doing other jobs,” he said.

The exhibition called Home Front and Heroes opens on 24th November.

The main part of it will be about the Second World War and volunteers will be dressed in 1940s costumes.

They will also be baking recipes from a wartime ration book and doing some wartime crafts, along with other activities on the theme of ‘make do and mend’.

James said that Gainsborough received a direct attack during the Second World War.