REBEL CAVALRY

Made for the USA and a rare item.flags are wrong though.

This slouch hat was worn by John Mosby when he was wounded by federal cavalry in December 1864. According to Virgil Carrington Jones, author of Grey Ghosts and Rebel Raiders, this hat was left behind in a house in Rector’s Cross Roads, Virginia. Forty years later, Sarah Halstead, the daughter of a 13th New York Cavalry officer returned the hat to Mosby. A few days after it arrived, Mosby went to the White House and presented the hat to the President.

Confederate cavalry leader John Mosby is among the most romantic characters in the Civil War, and with good reason. From 1863 to the end of the conflict, Mosby's raiders were a constant headache for the North. The raiders usually acted in small detachments of several dozen, though more than 1000 men served under Mosby. They sacked supply depots, attacked railroads, and harassed federal troops. They seemed to move behind enemy lines almost at will. Their most celebrated exploit occurred when Mosby himself rode into Fairfax Station, Virginia, in the dead of the night and kidnapped a Union general.

pirates

For more than four centuries pirates were hanged at Execution Dock on the north bank of the Thames. The exact spot is shown on old maps of London and lies a mile downstream from the Tower of London on a bend of the river at Wapping.

Today the riverside pub called 'The Captain Kidd' overlooks the original site of the gallows. In the early years of the 18th century the waterfront at Wapping was a jumble of wharves, wooden cranes and small shipyards. Beyond the wharves were narrow streets lined with the houses of seamen, dockers, shipwrights and their families.

This picture shows the execution of the pirate James Lowry who was hanged at Execution Dock, Wapping. The prison chaplain stands next to the condemned man on the scaffold. The church of St Mary, Rotherhithe, can be seen in the background. The official on horseback at the left holds the Admiralty oar.



A public eventThe gallows were built on the shore near the low tide mark. When an execution was due to take place, large crowds gathered on the shore and in boats moored out in the river.

The condemned man had to travel in a procession from the Marshalsea Prison on the south bank, across London Bridge and past the Tower of London to Execution Dock.



The procession was led by the Admiralty Marshal or his deputy who carried the silver oar that represented the authority of the Admiralty. The pirate travelled in a cart and was accompanied by the prison chaplain.

After the pirate had been hanged it was usual to let three tides pass over the body before it was taken away to be buried in an unmarked grave or sent to Surgeon's Hall for dissection. The dissection of executed criminals had been authorised in Henry VIII's reign and was common practice by the 18th century.

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My Dad writes "Skelly's only sold Britains.It was a newsagants but he also sold soldiers. Ashbrooke Road was the name of the street and it was near The archway in North London.When I started buying soldiers he sold soldiers of the 2nd world war but they also had 1st world war. Skelly was on an attack he recounted one day in France and he got a hand wound. An old sweat rubbed the blood all over his face and said "Get back down the line son". Skelly said he might have saved his life. The place that sold Hill's was called Hill (by chance) and it was a provisions store but sold John Hill soldiers. My mum wouldn't let me shop in there unless it was for soldiers. She said it was dirty.I only bought first world war hills. when the big soldiers came out I never bought them cos they were the wrong scale to my other soldiers"

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12th lancers Prince of Wales

hill la12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers

Having been practising with lances in the Peninsula and at home, in 1816 the regiment was converted into lancers and the name changed in 1817 to "The 12th, Prince of Wales, Royal Lancers". The regiment served with distinction in most theatres of war of the British empire including: South Africa 1852, The Crimea, The Indian Mutiny 1858 - 1860, The Boer War 1899 - 1902 and The Great War 1914 - 1918. In 1930 the horse had to make way for the automobile, as tanks and armoured cars took over. As an armoured regiment the 12th Lancers fought in several theatres of the Second World War.

British 12th Lancer Other Ranks Helmet

This pattern of Lancer helmet was introduced in 1856 as the other ranks pattern lance cap. It was made of a black leather body, the top having cloth sides while the top was black patent leather. The triangular sunray plate features the Royal arms and regimental honours stamped out in brass, while the plume was red horsehair.



This example is that of an NCO's lancer cap of the 12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) Regiment, which was amalgamated with the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers to form the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)

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HILL GREENERY AND STUFF

MUSSOLINI INVADES AFRICA

In 1934, Italian soldiers attacked a party of British and Abyssinians at the oasis at Wal-Wal, in Abyssinia. The Italian army got ready to invade. Haile Selassie, the emperor of Abyssinia, asked the League of nations   to help. In July, the League banned arms sales to either side (this hurt Abyssinia much more than the Italians, who were ready to attack).

In September, the League tried to arbitrate. It suggested that Italy should get some land in Abyssinia. Instead, in October 1935, Italy’s 100,000 strong army invaded. It used tanks and flame-throwers. The Abyssinians had camels, war drums and 12 planes. They were massacred.

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The League did agree to some sanctions (on rubber and metals), but it did not stop oil sales. But, in December 1935, news leaked out of the Hoare-Laval Pact, a secret plan made by Britain and France to give two-thirds of Abyssinia to Italy, without telling the League.



Italian troops used poison gas and attacked Red Cross hospitals, but even then the League could not agree on what to do. By May 1936, Italy had conquered Abyssinia

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ZULU

THE THIRTIES

Under the brown fog of a winter noon

Mr. Eugenides, the Smyrna merchant

Unshaven, with a pocket full of currants

C.i.f. London: documents at sight, 210

Asked me in demotic French

To luncheon at the Cannon Street Hotel

Followed by a weekend at the Metropole

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FALSE HILLIn my opinion they are not

To me these are not HILL as stated by the seller on E.Bay

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waiting for godot

Waiting for Godot (pronounced/ɡɒdoʊ/, GOH-dough) is an absurdist play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait endlessly and in vain for someone named Godot to arrive. Godot's absence, as well as numerous other aspects of the play, have led to many different interpretations since the play's premiere. It was voted "the most significant English language play of the 20th century". [1] Waiting for Godot is Beckett's translation of his own original French version, En attendant Godot, and is subtitled (in English only) "a tragicomedy in two acts".[2] The original French text was composed between 9 October and 29 January 1949 1948.[3] The première was on 5 March 1953 in the Théâtre de Babylone. The production was directed by Roger Blin, who also played the role of Pozzo. what a gas if hill had made this set in the title of this post

HILL GAS DETECTOR SOLDIER WITH LITMAS BAYONET

home guard

Mannering still marches on as the reruns of Dads army on T.V are constant. One cannot know why Hill did the Homeguard but they did. My Grandfather who was an ex Connaught ranger said they were not worth a light but hey ......

but the homeguard were also done by others such as Ford metal soldiers taken over by Ventura and as their sculpturer a crtain Broadbent

Quo Vadis and Taylor

Taylor was the pin up of the 50's. Hill got into the action and sold many of the Quo Vadis sets

The film was one of the most sumptuos ever made and was responsible for immese cinema queues outside local cinemas such as the then very upmarket odeon in holloway rd London

it was here that a doodle bug fell in the 2nd world war and destroyed then then state of the art cinema where in the 30's Tyrone Power had appeared outside on the balcony to recieve the applause of the crowd

ROYAL FLYING CORPS

The first operational RFC airfield was here in Montrose.crescent

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