A PIECE of wartime history is to go on display following a donation to a museum.

A signalling lamp which once belonged to the German Navy has been given to the Eden Camp modern history museum, near Malton, North Yorkshire.

The Second World War item was handed to the leading tourist attraction by a local family and will now form part of a U-Boat display.

Museum boss Steve Jaques said the gift had probably been triggered by recent publicity surrounding a paraffin rescue lamp which was donated by Scarborough police.

"It has a leather strap which means it would have been carried round the neck like a pair of binoculars," he said. "It also has a squeeze trigger so messages could be flashed out."

The museum, a former prisoner-of-war camp, has regularly been voted one of the region's most popular tourist destinations.