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Firmin & Sons is a British company, founded in 1655, that manufactures and supplies military ceremonial buttons, badges, accoutrements, and uniforms. Thomas Firmin was born in Ipswich , Suffolk in 1632 and was apprenticed to The Girdlers Company the makers of belts both for fine dress and for utility.
The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [26]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")
This is a list of equipment of the British Army currently in use. It includes current equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, vision systems, communication systems, aircraft, watercraft, artillery, air defence, transport vehicles, as well as future equipment and equipment being trialled.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 03:57, 1 August 2022: 238 × 216 (63 KB): Rosiestep: Uploaded a work by Luis Fenollosa Emilio from {{cite book |last1=Emilio |first1=Luis Fenollosa |title=The Emilio Collection of Military Buttons: American, British, French and Spanish, with Some of Other Countries, and Non-military, in the Museum of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass.
Brigadier General: No device on the epaulettes and buttons were in two. After the Crimean War (30 January 1855), the War Office ordered different rank badges for British general, staff officers and regimental officers. It was the first complete set of rank badges to be used by the British Army.
Button Lines: The Journal of the British Button Society [8] began publication in 1976, just before Just Buttons ceased publication. [9] The National Button Bulletin, the publication of the National Button Society, began publication in 1942. These periodicals provided an opportunity for an expanding number of collectors to share their research ...
The British First World War Victoria Cross recipient John Vereker, later Field Marshal Viscount Gort, was mentioned in despatches nine times, as was the Canadian general Sir Arthur Currie. [11] The Australian general Gordon Bennett was mentioned in despatches a total of eight times during the First World War, as was Field Marshal Sir John Dill .
An East Norfolk Militia button believed to date from 1770–80 has "E" over NORFOLK over "B" (for Battalion). A button from ca 1780–1800 has an ornate 'EN' within an eight-pointed cut star. [97] The officers' buttons until 1881 carried the castle and lion within a crowned garter inscribed EAST NORFOLK. [18]