#British Military

[militarymenrbomb]

[vintage-london-images]

With Trooping The Colour being tomorrow 15th June 2024, I thought this snippet may be interesting of the slow march past from 1933.

The Colour being Trooped is the King's Colour of No 7 Company 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards in front of his Majesty King George V.

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[fantastictyphoonpeanut]

Hawker Hunter, the greatest sub-sonic jet fighter ever built (FTP)

[princesscatherineblog]

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge present operational medals to the Irish Guards in Windsor at Victoria Barracks London, England - 25.06.11

[hereswhere]

I will personally make sure rishi sunak and kier starmer see the hague.

[thebaffledcaptain]

Some studies I did of the British at Monmouth this past June, featuring soldiers and musicians from the 22nd, 33rd, and 71st regiments of foot, inspired by William Barns Wollen’s 1911 sketchbook. Fantastic event and I can’t wait to do it again.

(Alternate, color-less version below cut)

[cavalierzee]

The British Spy Squad Assisting Israel As It Bombs Gaza

An Israeli official revealed Britain secretly deployed a spy squad to Israel at start of the genocide.

UK is providing intel “Israel cannot collect on its own”, he added.

No UK paper has ever reported it.

Our govt is participating—and our journalists are complicit—in genocide.

Matt Kennard

[victusinveritas]

A close up of a British heavily armed patrol of ‘L’ Detachment SAS in their jeeps,just back from a 3 month patrol. January 18 1943.

[georgefairbrother]

Arguably the single most influential figure in terms of how the fallen of the Great War were memorialised was Rudyard Kipling, whose own son, John, a second lieutenant in the Irish Guards, was reported (missing presumed) killed at Loos, aged 18. (His grave was not identified until 1992).

Rudyard Kipling, an internationally renowned novelist, poet, short story writer and journalist, was subsequently invited by the British government to help establish the Imperial War Graves Commission.

He applied the phrase ‘Known unto God’ for the graves in which the occupant was unidentified, and recommended that headstones be uniform and should have regimental identification wherever possible.

"...What knowledge I have of the feeling among officers and men, dead and alive, convinces me that their chief desire would be for distinctive regimental headstones which could be identified in every quarter of the world where a soldier of their regiment may be buried..."

Perhaps his most significant contribution was establishing the policy that names on communal memorials be listed strictly in alphabetical order, regardless of rank, aristocratic background or class.

Upon his death in 1936, the War Graves Commission noted that Rudyard Kipling had either written, selected or approved every inscription on IWGC graves and memorials throughout the world, and had, on his own initiative, personally inspected memorial sites in Belgium, France, Egypt and Palestine.

Background from Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time (BBC Radio 4), the website of the Kipling Society, and BBC News (2016): Solving the Mystery of Rudyard Kipling's Son

[militarymenrbomb]

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

GRIM AFTERMATH OF A GAS ATTACK -- "WAR IS A BLACK HOLE TO AVOID."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on a. WWI-themed art piece titled "Dressing the Wounded During a Gas Attack," pastels on paper/artwork by English artist & occultist, Austin Osman Spare, c. 1919.

Resolution at 765x1023 & 715x960.

IMAGE OVERVIEW: "A wounded British infantryman has his left leg dressed by a man of the Royal Army Medical Corps. Both men wear gas masks as a gas attack is in progress. The wounded man sits beside a bomb damaged tree stump, the RAMC man sitting at his feet with his back to the viewer. The foreground is littered with medical kit, debris and the hand of a dead soldier encroaches into the composition. A shell violently explodes in the background."

-- IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM (IWM Art Collection)

Sources: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/25090 & Pinterest.

[agoodgirlhasnoname]

Confession: I have a huge fetish for big men in uniform and cannot control it 😵‍💫

Pretty please spam my inbox if this is you with your pics in uniform so I can tell and show you how appreciative I am of your service 🤤

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

Emails and internal documents reveal details of a cabal of British military and intelligence veterans which plotted to escalate and prolong the Ukraine proxy war “at all costs.”

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/international-news/leaked-documents-expose-secret-british-military-effort-to-prolong-ukraine-war

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[hartshorn-and-isinglass]

Emptying out my bookmarks list--I don't know that I'm ever going to need the British Army muster rolls and pay lists from 1730-1798 but hey, maybe one of you nerds might find it useful:

[thebaffledcaptain]

doodled another fifer on my readings today because I’m getting excited for my next event :)

[perrysoup]

This might interest you.

One of my friends is serving in the British military.

Amongst most of the rank and file members, there is basically no desire to want to aid Israel in the conflicts they’re either outright starting or escalating. Ukraine, absolutely they would want to go and help. Israel is an entirely different story.

It’s nice to hear the common soldier doesn’t like it, the question is will they refuse the order if given?