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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Grateful British soldiers smile as they arrive back in Britain after the disastrous raid at Dieppe - Aug 1942

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

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

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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.

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

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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

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Pictured above: Brig. Gen. Anthony C. Mcauliffe, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, gives his various glider pilots last-minute instructions in England before the take-off on September 17, 1944 for Operation market Garden.

Today marks the 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden. Its objective was to create a 64 mile salient into German territory with a bridgehead over the Nederrijn (Lower Rhine River), creating an Allied invasion route into northern Germany.

In the end, Market Garden was one of the costliest Allied failures of WWII, but remains a remarkable feat of arms. This is not because of its strategic ambition, but because of the determination and courage shown by Allied airborne troops and the units that tried to reach them.

It did however, lead to the liberation of a large part of the Netherlands at a time when many Dutch people were close to starvation.

(Photo courtesy of U.S. Air Force archives)

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An improvised trench catapult used by the British in 1914. Also firing/flinging an improvised grenade known as a 'jam tin bomb'.

London Illustrated News, 1914.

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To commemorate the anniversary of D-Day, a short thread of photos colourised by DBColour (Colourising History on Facebook). Descriptions run from top-to-bottom.

Piper Bill Millin, seen here landing on Sword Beach with his bagpipes with Lord Lovat’s Commandos of 1st Special Service Brigade. IWM B 5103.

Commandos of 1st Special Service Brigade after landing on Queen Red beach, Sword area, 6 June 1944. British Airborne troops smile from the door of their Horsa glider as they prepare to fly out as part of the second drop on Normandy on the night of 6th June 1944. LCI(L) 135 of the 2nd Canadian (262nd RN) Flotilla carrying personnel of the North Nova Scotia Highlanders and the Highland Light Infantry of Canada en route to France on D-Day, 6 June 1944. (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN Nº. 3205043) Film still from the D-Day landings showing commandos aboard a landing craft on their approach to Sword Beach, 6 June 1944.

LCA (Landing Craft Assault) containing soldiers from the Winnipeg Rifles head for the Normandy Juno beach - June 6, 1944.

Commandos approach Sword Beach in a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI). Ahead, the beach is crowded with tanks and vehicles of 27th Armoured Brigade and 79th Armoured Division.

Troops of 3rd Infantry Division on Queen Red beach, Sword area, circa 0845 hrs, 6 June 1944. In the foreground are sappers of 84 Field Company Royal Engineers. Behind them, medical orderlies of 8 Field Ambulance, RAMC, can be seen assisting wounded men.

A Horsa glider near the Caen Canal bridge at Benouville, 8 June 1944. No. 91 (PF800), carried Major John Howard and Lieutenant Den Brotheridge of No.1 Platoon, 'D' Co., 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in the early hours of D-Day. © IWM B 5232

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The Great War was indeed a World War. These gentlemen from the Royal Garrison Artillery represent His Majesty from far-off Bermuda!

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British soldiers await the order to advance along a narrow lane in Normandy - June 1944