The Memorable Order of Tin Hats as a community of the Museum The Crown and Anchor Shell hole comes to the South African National Museum of Military History : museums and communities

When the South African National Museum of Military History, now a component of the Northern Flagship Institution, was officially opened in August 1947, Field Marshal J. C. Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa at the time, referred to it as a memorial to what he termed '... the greatest united effort our country had been called upon to produce...'