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By Austin J Ruddy 25th August 2023

… service personnel extended to all walks of life in wartime Britain With the onset of World War Two, the sudden, massive expansion of Britain’s armed … supplies for those risking the oceans. They added this tag to show the sailors their support. Rare, £35 The …

13th April 2024

… in supplies, equipment, replacements and all the necessary war materiel to sustain an anticipated long, drawn-out … movement to Normandy by May 1, 1944. The estimated price tag for the enterprise was a staggering £25,000,000 … also useful for taking off wounded men for treatment in Britain OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPH US Army M3 half-tracks tow …

By Austin J Ruddy 23rd November 2022

… and visible static aerial defence that protected Britain’s Home Front from the Luftwaffe – but who did barrage … prove most lethal to? Though mostly associated with World War Two, Britain first employed barrage balloons during the … IT IS HIGHLY COLLECTABLE, EXPLAINING THE £80 PRICE TAG So, how successful were these inflatable defenders? In …

20th May 2022

… BRITAIN’ S ANTI-TANK WEAPONS Recent events have proven the … Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr anti-tank rifle by the end of the war. They also introduced the first purpose-built anti-tank … design and procurement of tanks. Despite the high price-tag associated with developing a modern tank force, it is a …

By Austin J Ruddy 19th March 2022

… 360,000 captured British and Commonwealth soldiers, World War Two would prove long, dull, and arduous. Fortunately, … ERIC SURVIVED AND RETURNED TO HIS WIFE. THIS METAL TAG, COMPLETE WITH ITS ORIGINAL STRING, COULD FETCH AS MUCH … 1,200 prisoners – less than 1% – managed to escape back to Britain. Although there were exceptions, escapees could be …

18th December 2021

… examines the naming conventions on the statues of some of Britain’s iconic military figures, and the importance of … was Churchill’s closest military adviser during World War Two, so the words are entirely appropriate. However, … names are inseparably attached to a descriptor or a tag line. Marshal of the RAF Viscount Trenchard is invariably …

16th June 2021

… ATTACKED BERLIN. IT WAS THE LAST MAJOR OFFENSIVE OF THE WAR IN EUROPE DK PETER SNOW, TV HISTORIAN AND BROADCASTER. … A BOY SCOUT’S BEST FRIEND The Ordnance Survey, Britain’s national mapping agency, reveals its military … how proud we are of our First World War generals.” The tag of ‘lions led by donkeys’ still finds favour by many. But …

28th January 2021

… PART II In part two of ‘Could Britain Have Fallen?’ Peter Caddick-Adams unfolds the way in … anything the Germans and Italians combined could bring to war – but it magnified the peril Churchill understood might … on RAF airfields on August 13, which they dubbed ‘Adler Tag’ (Eagle Day), and the resilience of the RAF was proving …

By Steve Snelling 29th October 2020

… in 1939, Johnny Brunt was destined to become one of Britain’s most formidable  soldiers. In the first of a … THAN AT STALINGRAD TOPFOTO In the thick of things World War Two had been raging for nearly two years and, impatient … good battalion’ and that was it. He said “Do you mind if I tag along?” As soon as they arrived in Algiers, Money …

By Professor Eric Grove 30th January 2020

… merchant ships entering Bilbao during the Spanish Civil War demanded delicate initiative on behalf of the Royal … THE EVACUATED CHILDREN WAS PROVIDED BEFORE THEY LEFT FOR BRITAIN. (TOPFOTO) Blake – with the destroyer Forester of … “[She was] giving us a good view of the very rag, tag and bobtail crews and I wondered whether his 6in could …

30th May 2019

… LUFTWAFFE SHOOT DOWN BATTLE OF BRITAIN Clive Sharples tells the story behind a memorial to a … hours of August 13, 1940, which would be called Adler Tag or Eagle’s Day, 80 airmen of Stab I (First Wing) … of burning flesh. Two or three elderly people, including a war reserve policeman, had beaten me to it.” Farmer Cyril Ash …

By Edited Dr Matthias Strohn 27th December 2018

… of conflict during the last year of the First World War, a conflict which Dr Strohn believes cast a long, long … military service up to and including the Battle of Britain, the remaining war years, Merlin developments and the … new to the reviewer. This book comes with a hefty price tag, but it contains so much information it’s a must-have for …

By Lord Ashcroft 27th December 2018

… alongside partisans towards the end of the Second World War having been parachuted into northern Italy in February … partisans. They were a colourful bunch, although their rag-tag appearance, including sporting old Italian army jackets … mess in Florence. The couple were married back in Britain, in Cheadle, Greater Manchester, on 11 October 1947 – …

By words John Carroll pictures John Carroll and ToSavage 21st June 2018

… nations, as the 1930s culminated in the outbreak of World War Two. During this time, the colonial policy of Italian … conquered by the Italians in 1931 when the towns of El Tag and Al Jawf became controlled by Italy. The British in … of whom were volunteers from New Zealand, Rhodesian and Britain. Despite being a small unit, they were able to carry …

By Austin J Ruddy 22nd February 2018

… and sometimes neglected area of collecting Second World War Home Guard material. They were Britain’s last stand against a ruthless and potential Nazi … drill No.68 rifle grenade, complete with safety pin and tag. Up to 50,000 women also served in the HG. Officially, at …