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A Pocket Guide to British Gallantry Awards
Over the ages and in all societies, gallantry in battle has been highly regarded, with the bravery of individuals and fighting forces being officially rewarded and publically …
The King's Shropshire Light Infantry 1881-1968
This book presents a photographic record of the service of a distinguished county regiment whose origins go back to the Seven Years' War, in the middle of the eighteenth century. …
British Military Medals - second Edition
This second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of medals and gallantry awards from Elizabethan times to the modern day, and it …
British Campaign Medals 1815-1914
At a time of imperial expansion, British forces were almost constantly in action against major powers, in wars of conquest, or in expeditions on the fringes of Empire, such as the …
British Campaign Medals 1914-2005
This book surveys the medals awarded to British personnel for military service around the world and in two world wars. The campaign medals awarded for the military actions have …
The Crimean War at Sea
Too often historical writing on the Russian War of 1854-56 focuses narrowly on the land campaign fought in the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. The wider war waged at sea by the …
British Campaign Medals of the First World War
Britain has issued medals rewarding war service since at least the early nineteenth century, and increasingly through the period of its imperial expansion prior to 1914, but …
British Campaign Medals 1914-2005
Surveys the medals awarded to British personnel for military services from the First World War to operations of British forces in the opening years of the twenty-first century. The …
British Gallantry Awards 1855-2000
British Gallantry Awards 1855-2000.This book surveys the British decorations and medals from the origins in the Crimean War of 1854-6 up to the end of the twentieth century.
British Military Medals
Fully revised second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling guide to military medals.This second edition of Peter Duckers best-selling British Military Medals traces the history of …
Soldiers of Shropshire
For generations, the county of Shropshire has maintained a range of volunteer military units - infantry, cavalry, artillery, medical and the rest - which have served effectively …
Castles of Shropshire
As a border county of the ‘Marcher Lordships’, Shropshire was for centuries an active military zone. Its often turbulent past is reflected in the large number of castles in the …