Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles
Author : Ray Westlake
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 1983
Category :
ISBN : 9780950853017
Author : Ray Westlake
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 1983
Category :
ISBN : 9780950853017
Author : Ray Westlake
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 27,28 MB
Release : 1998-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1473813271
Details of some two thousand patterns are set out in the text and illustrated by photographs from the author's unique collection. Ray Westlake is a recognised authority on British Army lineage and gives dates of formation, amalgamation, disbandment and changes in designation for all regiments. 'Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles' is recognised by collectors and military historians alike as the definitive reference work. Today, some sixteen years after it first appeared, the book remains the only reliable guide to an increasingly popular form of collecting. This edition, with two supplements, brings it abreast of the last round of mergers and amalgamations.
Author : Ian Kelly
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 2015-08-09
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 132638709X
140 page Master Catalogue of military and police badges, patches and buttons for collectors. 8200 different items listed for sale. Published by Ian Kelly (Militaria), a specialist dealer in uniform insignia for 25 years.
Author : John Gaylor
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2001-03-08
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1783379790
An identification guide to British Army cap badges from the Calvary and Royal Armoured Corps, the Guards, Women’s Units, Kitchener’s Army, and others. This book is a comprehensive guidebook, which will appeal to anyone with an interest in medal collecting. The book contains British Army badges from the earliest days to the present, with photographs of 800 examples. “This is an excellent text and complements the bookshelves of any researcher of the British army . . . an outstanding feat of research and I can only summarise by saying ‘Well done.’”—Military Archive Research.com
Author : David Bilton
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1473873533
Badges of Kitchener's Army is based on thirty years research in museums, archives and collections. It is an exhaustive study of the development of the battalion, brigade and divisional signs of the thirty divisions raised by Kitchener's appeal for men. While the divisional signs are well known, there has been little authoritative work on the signs worn by the infantry battalions. The book will illustrate the unique cap and shoulder titles used, as well as cloth signs worn to provide easy recognition in the trenches. Each service battalion, of each regiment has a listing, which provides a brief history of the unit and detailed information on the badges worn.It is prodigiously illustrated and contains much information, like why a shape or color was chosen, when it was adopted, what size it was, whether it was worn on a helmet, what color the helmet was and even what colors were used on horse transport; the majority of this rich and detailed information has never been published before. What helps make the information accurate and authoritative is that much of it comes from an archive created at the time and from personal correspondence with hundreds of veterans in the 1980s, many of whom still had their badges and often had razor-sharp recollections about wearing them. The book will also provide some comments from these veterans. A further unique aspect of the book is that it will look at the uniforms and badges worn before the battalions left the country, providing much new information that will enable people to identify any photographs they have lying around.
Author : David Bilton
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 34,85 MB
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1526758032
Badges of the Regular Infantry, 1914-1918 is based on over thirty years research in museums, archives and collections. It is an exhaustive study of the development of the battalion, brigade and divisional signs of the twelve divisions that formed the regular army during the Great War. It also looks at the badges of those battalions left behind to guard the Empire. While the divisional signs are well known, there has been no authoritative work on the signs worn by the infantry battalions. The book will illustrate the cap and shoulder titles used, as well as cloth signs worn to provide easy recognition in the trenches. Each regular and reserve battalion of a regiment has a listing, which provides a brief history of the unit and detailed information on the badges worn. It is prodigiously illustrated and contains much information, like why a shape or color was chosen, when it was adopted, what size it was, whether it was worn on a helmet, what color the helmet was and even what colors were used on horse transport; the majority of this rich and detailed information has never been published before. What helps make the information accurate and authoritative is that much of it comes from an archive created at the time and from personal correspondence with hundreds of veterans in the 1980s, many of whom still had their badges and often had razor-sharp recollections about wearing them. The book also provides some comments from these veterans. Using the illustrations will allow many of those unidentified photos in family albums to come to life.
Author : Arthur S. White
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 42,57 MB
Release : 2013-02-04
Category : Reference
ISBN : 178150539X
This is one of the most valuable books in the armoury of the serious student of British Military history. It is a new and revised edition of Arthur White's much sought-after bibliography of regimental, battalion and other histories of all regiments and Corps that have ever existed in the British Army. This new edition includes an enlarged addendum to that given in the 1988 reprint. It is, quite simply, indispensible.
Author : Peter Doyle
Publisher : The Crowood Press
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1785007645
The First World War has left an almost indelible mark on history, with battles such as the Somme and Passchendaele becoming watchwords for suffering unsurpassed. The dreadful fighting on the Western Front, and elsewhere in the world, remains vivid in the public imagination. Over the years dozens of books have been published dealing with the soldier's experience, the military history and the weapons and vehicles of the war, but there has been little devoted to the objects associated with those hard years in the trenches. This book (new in paperback) redresses that balance. With hundreds of carefully captioned photographs of items that would have been part of the everyday life for the British Tommy; from recruiting posters, uniforms and entrenching equipment to games, postcards and pieces of 'trench art', this book brings to life the experience of the Great War soldier through the objects with which he would have been surrounded.
Author : Ray Westlake
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 39,43 MB
Release : 2004-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1783833432
An account of the infantry battalions belonging to regiments of the British Army and the 63rd (Royal Naval Division) during their service in the Somme area. Although seventy-eight years have passed since the Battle of the Somme was fought, interest in this, the bloodiest battle of the First World War, has never waned. Ray Westlake has collated all the information so painstakingly gathered, to produce a comprehensive compendium of the exact movements of every battalion involved in the battle. This book is invaluable not only to researchers but to all those visiting the battlefield and anxious to trace the movements of their forebears.
Author : Ray Westlake
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 1996-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 085052511X
Following the success of British Battalions on the Somme, the author has produced a source book of the same quality on the Gallipoli Campaign. It has come about as a result of many years of enquiries from researchers and family historians.