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Identifying Cap Badges

Author : Graham Bandy
Publisher : Pen and Sword Family History
ISBN 13 : 1526776006
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Identifying Cap Badges written by Graham Bandy and published by Pen and Sword Family History. This book was released on 2022-03-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an invaluable ‘tool of the trade’ for anyone trying to identify or interpret photos. – Peter Hart, Military Historian Identifying Cap Badges is the book that has been missing from the bookshelves of family historians, military enthusiasts, and badge collectors alike. It is quite easy to find an erudite book on military cap badges, but you could spend hours, if not days, plodding through hundreds of pictures to find a match for the one you hold. Sometimes you may not find it at all! These learned badge collector's books have one major flaw; they are pictured and discussed in 'order of precedence', that is to say, from the earliest formed regiments to the latest, with separate sections on medical, engineers, cavalry, infantry, etc. This can be most confusing to those uninitiated into the 'dark arts' of military badges. Thus, if you do not know the name or 'original number' of your regiment in this order of precedence, you can be flummoxed! This, combined with all the different crowns, laurels, animals, mythological beasts and castles, can prove more than a little daunting, even to ex soldiers themselves! In this book you will find badges ordered by what is on the badge itself; be it a dragon, sphinx or castle, horse, lion or tiger. This is badge identification in minutes, rather than hours, with added information on dating badges and many comparison photographs alongside all the pictures of the badges. Added to these pictures are short histories of the regiments and 'family trees' plotting the antecedents of today's units.

British Army Cap Badges of the Second World War

Author : Peter Doyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782001026
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book British Army Cap Badges of the Second World War written by Peter Doyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their companion volume to British Army Cap Badges of the First World War, authors Peter Doyle and Chris Foster present an overview of the main cap badges worn by the British Army during the Second World War, which continued the rich and varied tradition of British regimental insignia. This book describes and illustrates, for the first time in high quality full colour, the main types of cap badge worn. With many amalgamations, war-raised units and special forces, British military insignia from the period have a surprising range that differs substantially from that worn by the soldiers of the previous generation. As in the first book, this volume contains contemporary illustrations of the soldiers themselves wearing the badges. Employing the skills of an established writer (and collector) and artist, it provides a unique reference guide for anyone interested in the British Army of the period.

British Army Cap Badges of the First World War

Author : Peter Doyle
Publisher : Shire Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780747807971
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book British Army Cap Badges of the First World War written by Peter Doyle and published by Shire Publications. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascination with the British involvement in the First World War extends to all aspects of the conflict. The battles and their outcomes; the armies and their leaders; the conditions of trench warfare; and the controversies form part of the growing literature examining every aspect of a war that was to cast a shadow over the rest of the twentieth century, the effects of which are still being felt today. For the British army, the cap badge is the most easily identifiable form of insignia. It represents a distillation of the pride of the regiment, its various battle honors and symbols borne proudly on the metallic emblem that was worn on all headdress, even within the trenches. Identification of the cap badge on old photographs is a first, important step in unraveling the military service of an individual. Cap badges have been collected avidly since they were first thought of in the nineteenth century. Cap-badge collecting is as popular now as it has ever been; yet with a growing number of fakes and forgeries, there is a need for a book that illustrates clearly the main types, and allows the collector and family historian alike to understand their meaning. Surprisingly, there are no real comprehensive web-based resources; and the available books (many of which are out of print), are often dull, arcane and poorly illustrated with grey, muddy images of otherwise spectacular badges. This book illustrates, for the first time in full color and high quality, images of the main types of badges used by the British Army in World War I. In addition, contemporary illustrations of the soldiers themselves wearing the badges, and the wider importance of their symbolism, is also included. Employing the skills of an established writer (and collector) and artist, it provides a unique reference guide for all people interested in the World War I.

British Army Cap Badges of the Second World War

Author : Peter Doyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747811105
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book British Army Cap Badges of the Second World War written by Peter Doyle and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their companion volume to British Army Cap Badges of the First World War, authors Peter Doyle and Chris Foster present an overview of the main cap badges worn by the British Army during the Second World War, which continued the rich and varied tradition of British regimental insignia. This book describes and illustrates, for the first time in high quality full colour, the main types of cap badge worn. With many amalgamations, war-raised units and special forces, British military insignia from the period have a surprising range that differs substantially from that worn by the soldiers of the previous generation. As in the first book, this volume contains contemporary illustrations of the soldiers themselves wearing the badges. Employing the skills of an established writer (and collector) and artist, it provides a unique reference guide for anyone interested in the British Army of the period.

Military Badge Collecting

Author : John Gaylor
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783379790
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Military Badge Collecting written by John Gaylor and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2001-03-08 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Cap-badges of the British Army

Author : G L D Alderson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752490060
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Cap-badges of the British Army written by G L D Alderson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Army has always set great store by its cap badges, which , in miniature, encapsulated the history and traditions of the units that wore them. They were worn with pride by the County regiments (that formed the bulk of the infantry) throughout the two world wars.Here is a comprehensive illustrated collection of the cap badges of the Second World War, the images taken from the author’s own collection. The commentary on each badge explains the joining together of battalions as the war progressed and a regimental index makes finding the badges easy. This is a complex subject clarified in one volume for the first time.

Identifying Your World War I Soldier from Badges and Photographs

Author : Iain Spencer Swinnerton
Publisher : Countryside Books (GB)
ISBN 13 : 9781860061288
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Identifying Your World War I Soldier from Badges and Photographs written by Iain Spencer Swinnerton and published by Countryside Books (GB). This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War of 1914-18 affected nearly every family in Britain, as well as those whose homes were in distant parts of what was then the British Empire, such as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. All came together in a common cause and most endured a common suffering. In recent years there has been unprecedented interest in tracing the careers of soldiers who fought in the Great War. This arises partly from family history researchers taking advantage of the internet and improved access to research archives, and to recognition by them of the cataclysmic nature of the war that should have ended all wars. Many family historians possess photographs from that era, usually of young, eager boys in their first uniforms. But so many are anonymous and they carry no detail of the sitter's Regiment or Corps. This book presents a simple, illustrated guide to the badges that help identify this core information about a First World War ancestor, whether it is a basic cap badge, collar badge, arm, rank, service and proficiency badges or particular items of regimental dress.

British Army Cap Badges of the Twentieth Century

Author : Arthur Ward
Publisher : Crowood Press UK
ISBN 13 : 9781861269614
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book British Army Cap Badges of the Twentieth Century written by Arthur Ward and published by Crowood Press UK. This book was released on 2008-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Items connected with the British military have always been extremely popular with collectors, and the intricate and beautiful badges made to denote a soldier's regiment have always been keenly collected, due to their small size, high quality and the fascinating stories of military derring-do that lie behind each one. The British army cap badge really came into being around the turn of the twentieth century, with large badges intended for the blue cloth helmets then in use. Later badges became smaller, and materials changed, as headgear became smaller, and new manufacturing techniques took away the laborious daily cleaning that was a part of every soldier's routine for most of the century. With every regiment having numerous variations of badge, this is a field of collecting that will yield rewards for the collector. With the aid of nearly 200 specially taken color photographs, Arthur Ward offers a complete introduction to this topic.

Identifying Military Insignia

Author : William Fowler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781555218430
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book Identifying Military Insignia written by William Fowler and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and text feature many different types of insignia with examples from military forces worldwide.

Badges of the Regular Infantry, 1914–1918

Author : David Bilton
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1526758032
Total Pages : 871 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Badges of the Regular Infantry, 1914–1918 by : David Bilton

Download or read book Badges of the Regular Infantry, 1914–1918 written by David Bilton and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Anodised Aluminium

Author : Chris Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473163242
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Anodised Aluminium written by Chris Marsh and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New Metal

Author : Chris Marsh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780473559953
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book New Metal written by Chris Marsh and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Girl Scout Badges and Signs

Author : Girl Scouts of the United States of America
Publisher : Girl Scouts of USA
ISBN 13 : 9780884413264
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Girl Scout Badges and Signs written by Girl Scouts of the United States of America and published by Girl Scouts of USA. This book was released on 1980 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to how to earn various badges and insignia in the Girl Scout organization.

Badges and Uniforms of the Royal Air Force

Author : Malcolm Hobart
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 178346903X
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Badges and Uniforms of the Royal Air Force written by Malcolm Hobart and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the relatively short yet highly distinguished history of the Royal Air Force there has been a tendency for the men and women of the Service to be overshadowed by the glamour of the aircraft.Nonetheless it is surprising that there has never before been a complete record of the uniforms and badges of the RAF and its predecessor, the Royal Flying Corps. Malcolm Hobart and Pen and Sword Books have cooperated to rectify this serious omission with this superbly color illustrated and comprehensive collector's guide. Badges of rank and trade are all depicted not only for the flying arms but for ground staff. This valuable addition to our Collector series also covers the RAF Reserves and Auxiliary Service, Air Training Corps and the Royal Observer Corps.

Cap badges of the territorial forces

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Cap badges of the territorial forces written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tracing Your Seafaring Ancestors

Author : Simon Wills
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473880491
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book Tracing Your Seafaring Ancestors written by Simon Wills and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs of your seafaring ancestors may tell you more about their lives than you realize, and Simon Willss helpful and practical guide shows you how to identify and interpret the evidence caught on camera. Since maritime roles have been so vital to Britains prosperity and military might, they are among the commonest professions depicted in photographs of our ancestors, and his handbook is the ideal introduction to them.Maybe your ancestor was a seaman in the Royal Navy, a ships captain, a steward on an ocean liner, or an officer in the naval reserves? This book shows you how to spot photographic clues to an individuals career. Whether your ancestor served in the merchant navy or the Royal Navy or in another seagoing role such as a fisherman, a lifeboatman, or even a ships passenger, Simon Willss book will be your guide.

Headdress Badges British Army

Author : Arthur L. Kipling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843425120
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book Headdress Badges British Army written by Arthur L. Kipling and published by . This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the recent death of Hugh King and the disposal of his collection by auction. The Naval and Military Press have republished both volumes of this work. First published in the seventies they remain the bible for badge collectors. Illustrated record of badges worn on every type of head-dress from the mitre cap to the Shako to the Field Service cap, with detailed comments. Changes in regimental title and dates of amalgamations given. Starts in the year 1800. It should be noted that dealers and auctioneers refer to Kipling and King numbers for identification purposes.