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Look to me like shoe blanks hooked over a bar of some sort.
David

An interesting image from the Boer war. The caption is interesting

David

Dave's comment about Region 1 DVDs made me wonder - don't people in the USA do what everyone in Europe does, and hack the players to make them "All Regions"?
David

The real issue was that he was very shortsighted, almost blind without glasses, and was turned down by the Navy and later the Army. The sight test was without glasses, on the basis that if he lost them he would be in danger, a danger to his men and a liability. His father Rudyard, was a prominent ac...

Pat, It is a single episode. Not much scope for a series. His father pulls many strings to get Jack commisioned despite his age and very bad eyesight. Jack is a perfect officer, goes to the front. Missing on about his second day. His family mount a long and detailed search for him. Killed heroically...

I saw it last night, and was more impressed than I expected. The period details were well done, as were the trenches. Certainly not done on the cheap. I did wonder if Jack was a little too good to be true. It was not as sentimental as I thought it might be, but it had my wife in tears.
David

In WW2 Infantry carried the knife hanging from a loop around the belt. At least in some pictures.
The Artillery did and still maintain that the lanyard doubled as an emergency lanyard to fire their gun.
David

Well, IMO not as an expert on ww1 - I think that there is a good deal of licence there. The helmet marking looks very wrong (although you can never say an individual did not paint his helmet, at least until an officer noticed it). I would have expected a white, correct badge as per Trooper, small an...

In the area where I work, around Bristol, the Police have a mounted section. I just checked for a website and came up with this which I thought might be interesting -

http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/da ... _smith.asp




David Webb

The route by which Garry Owen arrived in the US is interesting. this is a partial extract from a website "It has been used by several Irish Regiments as their quick march. The Royal Irish Lancers, stationed in the suburbs of Limerick called "Garryowen," (The Gaelic word, meaning "...