The Armourer

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

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First Trooping of the Colour for King Charles III • Duncan Evans reports on what’s happening in the world of military history and collecting

Australia to ban swastika

Tanks for the shoes

June update at Newark Air Museum

Holts Modern & Antique Arms • The weapons, uniforms, medals and militaria coming up for auction

Hermann Historica June auctions

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

Royal uniforms at auction

Ratisbon’s 55th Contemporary History Auction

The Battle of France • Graham Caldwell recounts how Hitler drove the BEF from the continent and conquered France in little over six weeks

Quarterly German Militaria Magazine

British Army Rifle Volunteer badges • Ray Westlake concludes this series by looking at the badges of Cambridgeshire to Dumfrieshire

The Devil’s Brigade • Alex Bowers examines the elite American-Canadian special forces unit that served in the Aleutian Islands, Italy and Southern France

Royal Navy ship’s badges • The first of two features on collecting ship’s badges starts with those from WWI and WWII, as Mark Wood explains

SPECIAL EDITIONS

Ambush at Loughgall • Jonathan Trigg takes you into the heart of one of the deadliest, and most controversial, incidents of the Troubles in Northern Ireland

The Cape Copper Company Medal • Peter Duckers looks at one of the unofficial medals awarded for the defence of O’okiep in 1902

Japan’s secret subs • Barry Wheeler reveals the secret plans for attacking the Panama Canal with floatplanes launched from submarines

Collecting the Battle of France • Edward Hallett takes a look at some currently available collectables related to the invasion of France in 1940

The 1st Boer War • Gabriele Esposito outlines the military events of 1880-1881, which saw some of Britain’s worst defeats in South Africa

Emil Zellner • Phil Harris recounts the story of Emil Zellner, a young Gebirgsjäger who made the ultimate sacrifice for his country in 1943

The Photo Inspector • Ray Westlake looks at a 1915 photograph of Sergeant Major Knowles of the Welsh Horse Yeomanry

reviewsroundup • Duncan Evans reviews the latest releases in the world of military history and collecting

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