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Ray Westlake
The author has painstakingly compiled a comprehensive compendium of the exact movements of every regiment involved on the various battlefields in France and Flanders during World War One.
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A Guide to British Cavalry Uniforms and Badges in Old Prints, Pictures and Postcards, 1660 to 1914 contains some 143 colour images, all supported by an informative description.
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In this volume are presented some of Thomas Rowlandson’s most elegant and effective works in terms of pure printmaking. The result is arguably the greatest of all military costume books.
Born on 26 December 1776 in East Flanders, then an Austrian province, Charles Hamilton Smith was a descendent of a Flemish Protestant family named Smet. In England he attended school…
Delving into the many thousands of prints and original artworks available from his own and other collections, Ray Westlake has selected some 150 images featuring military musicians, bands and sheet…
This is a compilation of three wonderful 19th century series of colourful military costume plates, detailing the pre-unification Prussian Army, in accurately hand-coloured images, complete with commentary from Ray Westlake…
120 military figures are shown, and form part of our developing range of books dedicated to Uniformology.
Drawing on the Anne SK Brown Military Collection, Ray has selected a most…
This book, the first in a series of British Army ‘Guides’, deals with the numbered regiments that existed between 1751, when the British infantry was ordered to discard their colonels’…
The Home Service Helmet was introduced in 1878. With the new headdress came the helmet plate, those highly desirable items of militaria much sought after today by collectors.
In A Guide to the Civic Heraldry of England, Ray Westlake has gathered together a comprehensive collection of seals and coats of arms in use by England’s counties, cities and…
The Volunteer Corps and their mounted component the Yeomanry Cavalry were a voluntary part-time organisation for the purpose of home defence in the event of invasion, during the French Revolutionary…
102 manly colour plates taken from various contemporary sources, illustrating the many and varied uniforms of The British Volunteer Force 1859-1908.
Provides a record - from Tangier in 1662 to Bosnia in 1994 - of every country in which each regiment has served.
A re-issue of the illustrated history and war service of the New Army divisions raised by Lord Kitchener with his poster - with photographs depicting recruiting, training, uniforms, badges and…
The book sets out the structure of each Line Infantry Regiment from 1881 up until the beginning of the First World War, often be seen referred to as the Regimental…
In A Guide to the Volunteers of England 1859-1908, the second of his ‘Guides’ series, Ray Westlake presents details of the several branches of the Victorian system that saw men…
In A Guide to the Volunteer Training Corps, Ray Westlake has provided for the first time records of many of these fascinating early home defence volunteer units; his main source…
Forming part of his ‘Guide to…’ series, Ray has gleaned, from an array of sources, an impressive collection of seldom-encountered badges from the British numbered regiments of foot, up to…
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A Westlake classic back in print, this register is a complete account of the cadet units recognised and recorded in Army Orders during the period 1910-1922 by the Territorial Force…
This details the organization and equipment of volunteer units who fought alongside their regular comrades in almost every major British engagement of the war and without whom victory could have…
Geissler's plates are accurately reproduced in facsimile from the deluxe version of this fine series of Russian military costumes, that benefited from being both beautifully hand-coloured and heightened with gold.
