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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GREEKS

A nice set from Hill were these Victorian Greeks

timpo mountie

the previous post showed a hill mountie . look at the much better sculpture of the hill piece compared to this

hill mountie

superb mountie from hill look at that horse

KNIGHTS

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