Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles

by Ray Westlake

Overview

Newly revised and updated, Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles records the titles worn throughout the British Army by units of the Regular, Militia, Yeomanry, Volunteer, Territorial and Cadet forces.

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 recognized authority on British Army lineage and gives dates of formation, amalgamation, disbandment and changes in designation for all regiments.

Collecting Metal Shoulder Titles is recognized 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781473813274
Publisher:	Pen & Sword Books Limited
Publication date:	01/31/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Ray Westlake has an established reputation as a military historian specializing in the British army of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He has made a particular study of the Great War. He has published many articles and books, among them. Tracing British Battalions on the Somme, British Battalions on the Western Front January to June 1915, Voluntary Infantry, 1880-1908, Kitchener's Army, British Regiments at Gallipoli, British Battalions in France and Belgium 1914, English and Welsh Regiments, The Territorial Battalions, The British Army of August 1914: An Illustrated Directory and Tracing the Rifle Volunteers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Abbreviations x

Introduction 1

Chapter 1 Cavalry 5

Chapter 2 Yeomanry 15

Chapter 3 Arms and Services 33

Chapter 4 Foot Guards 53

Chapter 5 Infantry Regiments 55

Chapter 6 Infantry Regiments formed since 1958 129

Chapter 7 Territorial Regiments 133

Chapter 8 Cyclists 143

Chapter 9 Reserve Regiments 1900 147

Chapter 10 Royal Marines 149

Chapter 11 Royal Naval Division 151

Chapter 12 Schools and Training Establishments 153

Chapter 13 Women's Units 163

Chapter 14 Miscellaneous Units 165

Chapter 15 Supplement 1 169

Chapter 16 Supplement 2 177

Bibliography 182

The Plates

Index 183