The Armourer

The Armourer covers battles and campaigns including features on collecting medals, weapons, uniforms and equipment.

The Armourer

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militarianews • Duncan Evans reports on what’s happening in the world of military history and collecting

Medal for Afghanistan evacuation

Imperial War Museum launches live event

Militaria for sale • Lenny Warren trawls the internet to find bargains, rare, interesting or bizarre items of militaria

In the sale rooms • The weapons, uniforms, medals and militaria coming up for auction

The York Castle Museum • Kerry Culbert explores museum which features a recreated Victorian Street and £1.7 million gallery that was created to mark the centenary of WWI

Big four at Hermann Historica • Duncan Evans reports on the latest militaria sold at auctions around the country

DNW’s big money medals

German militaria at C&T

The battle for Berlin • From the River Oder and the Seelow Heights to the desperate street fighting, Graham Caldwell describes the last days of the Third Reich

The ATS at war • Willow Fitzgerald relates the story of how women served with the British Army during WWII

COLLECTING THE ATS

The dawn of war photography • John Wade reveals the work of photographers from the Crimean War to World War I

Regimental insignia 1751-1914 • Ray Westlake looks at the badges of the Royal Scots, up to the dawn of WWI

Royal Navy surgeons in the age of sail • 19th century British sailors fought brutal battles and suffered severe injuries but received treatment far superior to civilians, as Mark Wood explains

COLLECTING

The Dunbar Medal of 1650 • Peter Duckers investigates what could be classified as the very first British campaign medal

A curious German Luger • Michael Heidler asks whether this weapon that allegedly came from Hitler’s guard unit is a rarity or fantasy piece

The Saxon army of Alfred the Great • Gabriele Esposito outlines the structure of the Saxon military forces that held off the Vikings from AD 871-899

Collecting the fall of Berlin • Edward Hallett looks at some collectables related to the final Red Army onslaught against Berlin’s defenders

Silent but deadly • Michael Heidler takes a look at the suppressed M3/M3A1 SMG

The Photo Inspector • Ray Westlake looks at the uniform of a Colour Sergeant of the 24th London Regiment (Territorial Force)

Hitler’s Court • Duncan Evans reviews the latest releases in the world of military history and collecting

Ancient Greeks at War

The Battle of Berlin

The Complete Knight’s Cross Vol 2

Vikings

Tanks in the Battle of German 1945

The Fall of Berlin

Immortal Valor

Agent Provocateur for Hitler or Churchill?

U.S. CIVIL WAR

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