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Showing posts with label British Army. Show all posts
Showing posts with label British Army. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 October 2018

War Office Form WO.1143

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This form would later become the ubiquitous Army Form B.178 and would go through many design iterations. A prime example of its useful...
Tuesday, 9 October 2018

Army Form B.50 - Soldiers' Small Book

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Army Form B.50 was the Soldiers' Small Book which contained his personal details as well as notes and observations designed to be ...
Wednesday, 23 November 2016

Army Form B.271A - Attestation

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This attestation form which, so it says at the top, came into effect from September 1921, marks quite a departure from those attestatio...
Sunday, 8 February 2015

W.3428 - Accidental or self-inflicted injuries

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  I've not seen too many of these forms for reporting accidental or self-inflicted injuries, and this print run dates to July 1918 ...
Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Army Form B.178 - Medical History

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This commonly seen Army Form started life as War Office Form 1143 . The example above and below is the third iteration of this particular...
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Sunday, 9 February 2014

Army Form E.501 - Territorial Force attestation

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  Introduced in 1908, Army Form E.501 was to be used for men who were not serving members of the Volunteer Force or Imperial Yeomanry; ...
Thursday, 6 December 2012

Unlimited Service - 1846

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John Armstead enlisted with the 56th Regiment of Foot at Bury in Lancashire on the 2nd July 1846 at eleven o'clock in the morning.  H...
Thursday, 5 April 2012

Recruiting sergeants

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Here are some nice images of recruiting sergeants in the nineteenth century. I only discovered recently, that three twisted ribbons worn ...

Army Form B.265

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Army Form B.265 was introduced in October 1880 with an initial print-run of 25,000 copies.  It was a short service attestation form, th...