Royal Artillery Gunner's Sword 165 SALE 129 SALE SWD-51 Royal Navy Dirk 1780-1815This cushion pommel 5 ball dirk with an imitation ivory grip is ideal for any collector interested the age of fighting sail. While made to commemorate the British naval victories at St. Vincent, the Nile, Traf...
The Army was professional and mechanized and had new tanks, but it… A.22, Infantry Tank Mk.IV, Churchill NA 75 The NA 75, a workshop improvised Churchill variant, is a testament to the ingenuity of one British officer, Captain Percy H. Morrell. An officer of the Royal Electrical and ...
After a few decades of being ignored by the British Army, an interest in self-propelled anti-aircraft (SPAA) systems resurfaced in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with both gun and missile-based systems under consideration. France and West Germany had been… ...
The transit camps at a disused army ground and a former gold mining encampment near Suan were known to the British as the Bean Camp and Bean Pie Camp (alternately known as the Mine or Mining Camp) respectively because of the diet of Soya bean cake provided there for several weeks before ...
In 1924 the General Staff of the British Army ordered the prototype of a heavy tank, which became known as the Independent. The Design Team was headed by Sir George Buckham, who had been with Vickers since 1895, with much of the design completed by Walter Gordon Wilson along with three ...
Production was limited due to the outbreak of War, but a number found service with the Royal Air Force (RAF), as well as the Dutch Army, among others. They also worked on a light scout car under the name of ‘Dingo’, however, this is not the famous one. The outbreak of war put...
Colonel Rookes Evelyn Bell Crompton had been there right at the birth of the British plan for the machines which were to become known as tanks. In 1915, this veteran of Victorian campaigns in India and acknowledged expert in both electrical equipment and road traction was brought in to be ...