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  • The Yeomanry and Volunteers of 1794-1808
    Ray Westlake
    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 and Napoleonic Wars.The Corps typically drew its members from the propertied classes. Officers were usually members of the gentry and the enlisted ranks tended to be from the lower ...
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    57,75 €

  • Charles Lyall’s British Army, 1642 to 1812
    Ray Westlake
    One hundred and twenty 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 useful collection of works by Charles Lyall. Covering a broad span of subjects from the 17th, 18th and early 19th century, this series of illustrations is a good reference work for ...
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    59,31 €

  • The Volunteer, 1859-1908
    Ray Westlake
    102 manly colour plates taken from various contemporary sources, illustrating the many and varied uniforms of The British Volunteer Force 1859-1908. This part-time military force which came into being to meet the mid-nineteenth century fear of French invasion. It survived and grew for fifty years until in 1908 it was renamed and remodelled as the Territorial Force. Composed ini...
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    58,08 €

  • REPRESENTATION OF THE UNIFORMS OF THE IMPERIAL ARMY OF ALL RUSSIA 1790-98
    Ray Westlake
    Christian Gottfried Heinrich Geissler, draughtsman and etcher, produced this fine and important series of Russian military costumes when he spent the years 1790 to 1798 serving as the expedition artist with the Prussian zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas, on his travels in the Caucasus and southern Russia. On his return to his birth town of Leipzig, Geissler published th...
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    43,08 €

  • One Hundred & Fifteen Uniform Plates of The Famous Prussian Army - OMNIBUS EDITION
    Ray Westlake
    The aphorism usually attributed to the French statesman Count Mirabeau, that Prussia was 'not a country with an army but an army with a country', remains two centuries later a common way of introducing a discussion of 18th and 19th century Prussia. This is a compilation edition of three wonderful 19th century series of colourful military costume plates, detailing the pre-unific...
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    84,97 €

  • A Guide to British Army Badges
    Ray Westlake
    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 the Army reforms of 1881. The quality of the images is outstanding, mostly in full colour, also usefully they are reproduced full size to aid identification.This ’Guide’ is not intended to b...
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    63,74 €

  • A Guide to Military Art Bands, Bandsmen and Sheet Music Covers
    Ray Westlake
    Following the success of his volumes featuring the works of Thomas Rowlandson and Charles Hamilton Smith (both in his ’Guide to Military Art’ series and published by the Naval & Military Press), Ray Westlake has this time turned his attention to military music. Delving into the many thousands of prints and original artworks available from his own and other collections, he has s...
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    26,68 €

  • A GUIDE TO MILITARY ART - Charles Hamilton Smith’s Costume of the Army of the British Empire
    Ray Westlake
    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 in Richmond, Surrey, but having returned to Flanders he went on to study at the Austrian Academy for Artillery and Engineers at Malines and Louvain. He was a talented artist and as such provided on...
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    64,14 €

  • A GUIDE TO MILITARY ART - ROWLANDSON’S LOYAL LONDON VOLUNTEERS 1798-99
    Ray Westlake
    The most original set of English military plates from the Napoleonic period - The Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs, Infantry & Cavalry, in their respective Uniforms. Representing the whole of the Manual, Platoon & Funeral Exercise in 89 plates. Designed and etched by T. Rowlandson and originally published in London during 1798-99 by Ackermann.In this volume are presented s...
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    45,70 €

  • A Guide to the British Army’s Line Infantry Regiments, 1881-1914
    Ray Westlake
    The purpose of this book is to set out in an easily readable and well-illustrated form the structure of each Line Infantry Regiment from 1881 up until the beginning of the First World War, a setup which can often be seen referred to as the ‘Regimental Family’. The book follows on from A Guide to the British Army’s Numbered Infantry Regiments of 1751–1881, published by The Naval...
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    64,32 €

  • A GUIDE TO THE VOLUNTEER TRAINING CORPS 1914-1918
    Ray Westlake
    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 of information being contemporary records. A short history of the Volunteer Training Corps has also been provided, together with a comprehensive listing of all Volunteer Regiments, Volunteer Battalions,...
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    61,12 €

  • A GUIDE TO THE CIVIC HERALDRY OF ENGLAND Up to the First World War
    Ray Westlake
    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 towns. Much local history is expressed in the devices used by these places this fact, together with the opportunity to enjoy beautiful artwork, being the main intention of the book. Heraldry has its own wo...
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    59,87 €

  • A GUIDE TO THE VOLUNTEERS OF ENGLAND 1859-1908
    Ray Westlake
    In A Guide to the Volunteers of England 1859–1908, the second of his ‘Guides’ series, Ray Westlake deals with the Volunteer Force of 1859 to 1908, the predecessors of the future Territorial Army. Well known for his valuable research into this important aspect of British Army history, the author presents details of the several branches of the Victorian system that saw men from ...
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    62,42 €

  • A Register of TERRITORIAL FORCE CADET UNITS 1910-1922
    Ray A Westlake
    A “Westlake” classic back in print, this register represents a complete account of the cadet units recognised and recorded in Army Orders during the period 1910-1922 by the Territorial Force Associations of Great Britain. This title, along with most of Ray’s works, is aimed at the military historian who wants to know the nuts and bolts of the British Army, and its formations an...
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    18,81 €

  • A Guide to The British Army’s Numbered Infantry Regiments of 1751-1881
    Ray Westlake
    The book provides the formation date of each regiment, names of colonels prior to 1751, changes of title, battle honours awarded before 1881 and brief descriptions of uniform and badges worn. Helpful to the collector will be the badge authorisation dates included. With a view to further research, details of important published regimental histories have been noted. The numbering...
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    60,37 €

  • ORDER OF BATTLE OF DIVISIONS, INDEX
    Ray Westlake
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    23,42 €