#british army.

[world-of-wales]

CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2023

8 NOVEMBER 2023 || The Princess of Wales visited the 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards regiment at the Robertson Barracks at Swanton Morley in Norfolk.

Catherine opted for -

↬ Country Crew Neck Knit in 'Forest Marl' by Holland Cooper

↬ Windproof Camouflage Combat Smock Jacket from the British Army

↬ The Queen's Dragoon Guards Rank Slide from the British Army

↬ Black Turtleneck Sweater

↬ Black Skinny Trousers

↬ Teardrop Hoops with Garnet Charm Earrings by Spells of Love

↬ Paper Poppy Pin by Royal British Legion

↬ Leather Trimmed Suede Ankle Boots from See By Chloé

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

[scrapironflotilla]

Second Lieutenant Harold Hemming on selecting NCOs from the recruits of the 12th West Yorkshire Regiment:

“There was no use picking out a few bright-looking chaps and telling them that they were corporals, for there was no way of indicating their rank. We did not even have brassards with stripes on them that they could wear over their coat sleeves. So I counted the men who had moustaches and found that I had just enough, so I made them all lance-corporals there and then …"

The British Army in WW1, a wonder of modern organisation.

[historynerdj2]

A drawing by Mary Evans, depicting New Zealand Soldiers climbing the walls of Le Quesnoy, during the Battle of the Sambre, part of the Hundred Day offensive, November 4, 1918

[theworldofwars]

A British padre saying a prayer over a dying German, near Epehy - France, 18th September 1918.

[cid5]

WWI, 1 May 1918; A Machine Gun Corps post in a barn near Haverskerque, The Battle of the Lys (Operation Georgette).

[theworldatwar]

British soldiers pose for a photograph with German Goliath tracked mines captured in Normandy just after D-day -June 1944

[bantarleton]

A brilliant portrayal of British Captain Patrick Ferguson's experimental rifle corps, an ad hoc company raised in 1777 and equipped with Ferguson's famed breech-loading rifles.

[herprivateswe]

Image: IWM (Art.IWM ART 1609)

Two British soldiers picking apples in an orchard. The soldier on the left bites into the fruit as he looks around him, while the other, wearing a kilt, leans up to pick from the higher branches.

[bisexual-biohazard5]

Just had a random day dream about Percy (again.)

What if after the war had ended and Fred survived, Percy didn't reunite with his family and took a break from his job to go to the muggle army?

Like during the war, Percy had forged papers for muggleborns and halfbloods. Helping them evacuate in secret under the nose of the corrupt ministry.

But a few of them don't make it and Percy feels guilty because he thinks he didn't try hard enough.

So he joins the British muggle army, at 20. He stays in service for around 6-7 years. Because he wants to help in some way. Obviously he doesn't take his wand, he's intelligent, we already know that.

His family won't even know about it until they see the news on the muggle tv that Arthur finally got to work. They see a video on the news channel where the soliders are setting up their tents after marching and they see Percy among the crowd of soliders.

I think it would be an intetesting concept and I would love to see someone have a long fanfic on it.

[world-of-wales]

CATHERINE'S STYLE FILES - 2023

8 MARCH 2023 || The Princess of Wales visited The 1st Battalion Irish Guards for the first time since becoming Colonel on Salsbury Plain on 8 March 2023.

Catherine opted for -

Windproof Camouflage Combat Smock Jacket from the British Army

Astoria knit Sweater in fern green by Holland Cooper

High G-Shape Cargo Skinny Pants In Khaki from G-Star

Gold Hoop Earrings

Supalite II Goretex Hiking Boots In Brown by Berghaus

[lionofchaeronea]

Troops of the British 3rd Infantry Division come ashore on Sword Beach, 0845 hours, 6 June 1944. They are led by the 84th Company of Royal Engineers. In the middle distance, medics tend to wounded men, while at the rear, commandos of the 1st Special Service Brigade disembark from landing craft. Photo credit: Sgt. J. Mapham/Imperial War Museum.

[scrapironflotilla]

British artillery officers used some interesting methods for locating German batteries.

How fucking bad were methods in 1916 that this is an improvement?

[secular-jew]

A soldier in the Jewish Brigade Group of the British Army, with an artillery shell reading "A gift to Hitler" in Italy, 1944.

[theworldofwars]

Australian soldiers wearing respirator gas masks, Ypres, September 27, 1917

[cid5]

"Ghostlike" sculptures (by artist Jackie Lantelli) of soldiers who died in World War One next to their graves in Slimbridge cemetery.