[Guzzman]

Hi Mike

A nice selection of tallies! I especially like the Mine Clearance Service tally.

At the end of the Great War, the Admiralty appointed an International Mine Clearance Committee on which 26 countries were represented. The Supreme War Council allotted each Power an area to clear, the largest falling to Great Britain. Some 40,000 square miles of sea needed clearing. In February 1919 a Mine Clearance Service was formed with special rates of pay and conditions of service. Members of the service wore Royal Navy uniform with a special metal cuff badge and cap tally. By the end of 1919 over 23,000 Allied and 70 German mines had been swept with the loss of half a dozen minesweepers. The Mine Clearance Service was disbanded in 1920.

Pete