Identifying Cap Badges
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Identifying Cap Badges

A Family Historian's Guide

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
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eBook - ePub

Identifying Cap Badges

A Family Historian's Guide

About this book

This book is an invaluable 'tool of the trade' for anyone trying to identify or interpret photos. – Peter Hart, Military Historian Identifying Cap Badges is the book that has been missing from the bookshelves of family historians, military enthusiasts, and badge collectors alike. It is quite easy to find an erudite book on military cap badges, but you could spend hours, if not days, plodding through hundreds of pictures to find a match for the one you hold. Sometimes you may not find it at all! These learned badge collector's books have one major flaw; they are pictured and discussed in 'order of precedence', that is to say, from the earliest formed regiments to the latest, with separate sections on medical, engineers, cavalry, infantry, etc. This can be most confusing to those uninitiated into the 'dark arts' of military badges. Thus, if you do not know the name or 'original number' of your regiment in this order of precedence, you can be flummoxed! This, combined with all the different crowns, laurels, animals, mythological beasts and castles, can prove more than a little daunting, even to ex soldiers themselves! In this book you will find badges ordered by what is on the badge itself; be it a dragon, sphinx or castle, horse, lion or tiger. This is badge identification in minutes, rather than hours, with added information on dating badges and many comparison photographs alongside all the pictures of the badges. Added to these pictures are short histories of the regiments and 'family trees' plotting the antecedents of today's units.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Order of Precedence
  9. A Short History of the Badge in the British Army
  10. How to use this Book
  11. Chapter 1 Uniforms and Badges in Date Order and Some Tips to Help with Dating
  12. Chapter 2 Birds and Wings
  13. Chapter 3 Bugle Horns
  14. Chapter 4 Castles
  15. Chapter 5 Circles and Ovals
  16. Chapter 6 Circles and Ovals Surmounted with Crowns
  17. Chapter 7 Coats of Arms and Shields
  18. Chapter 8 Cross
  19. Chapter 9 Dragons
  20. Chapter 10 Feathers
  21. Chapter 11 Figures and Faces
  22. Chapter 12 Flowers and Plants
  23. Chapter 13 Grenades and Flames
  24. Chapter 14 Guns
  25. Chapter 15 Harps
  26. Chapter 16 Horses
  27. Chapter 17 Knives, Daggers and Swords
  28. Chapter 18 Letters, Monograms and Roman Numerals
  29. Chapter 19 Lions
  30. Chapter 20 Numbers
  31. Chapter 21 Other Animals
  32. Chapter 22 Other ‘Things’
  33. Chapter 23 Sphinx
  34. Chapter 24 Stags or Deer
  35. Chapter 25 Stars
  36. Chapter 26 Sticks, Rifles and Lances
  37. Chapter 27 Tanks
  38. Chapter 28 Tigers
  39. Chapter 29 Wheels
  40. Chapter 30 Women’s Services
  41. Chapter 31 Wreaths
  42. Where to go Next and Further Research
  43. Abbreviations Used
  44. Appendix 1 Cavalry, 1881 to 1922
  45. Appendix 2 Former Infantry Numbering System up to 1881 and Subsequent Titles
  46. Appendix 3 The Current Order of Precedence
  47. Appendix 4 ‘Lost’ Corps
  48. Appendix 5 Some Previous Lost Units
  49. Appendix 6 Modern Regiments, Formation Dates, and their Antecedents (as of 2020)
  50. Appendix 7 Infantry and Infantry of the Line
  51. Appendix 8 Looking at Photographs
  52. Appendix 9 Regimental and Service Numbers
  53. Appendix 10 The Missing Numbers
  54. Bibliography