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The Black Watch. Forward the 42nd! at the Alma, 1854, (1939)

The Black Watch. Forward the 42nd! at the Alma, 1854, (1939). The Battle of the Alma (20 September 1854), which is usually considered the first battle of the Crimean War, took place in the vicinity of the River Alma in the Crimea. An Anglo-French force under General St. Arnaud and Lord Raglan defeated General Menshikov's Russian army, which lost around 6000 troops. Here a Scots regiment under Sir Colin Campbell storm a Russian-held hill. From Battles for the Flag, a set of cards given away with British boys comic The Wizard. [D. C. Thomson & Co., Dundee, 1939]

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Boy Scout Uniform and Badges, 1944. Creator: Kenneth Brookes

Boy Scout Uniform and Badges, 1944. Patrol leader's hat badge; scarf of troop colour; all-round cords for six badges; staff of shoulder height, with patrol flag (Woodpigeon Patrol); scout badge on pocket, with two stripes to show patrol leader's rank; service stars; shoulder knot of patrol colours; King's Scout badge; First Class badge; green garters'. The Scouting movement was founded by Robert Baden-Powell in 1908. The original Boy Scout uniform consisted of a khaki shirt and shorts, a neckerchief or scarf, campaign hat and a Scout staff. From "Boy Scouts, by E. E. Reynolds. [Collins, London, 1944]

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A Blenkinsop Locomotive at a Yorkshire Colliery, 1814, (1945). Creator: Unknown

A Blenkinsop Locomotive at a Yorkshire Colliery, 1814, (1945). Man smoking a pipe, and a Blenkinsop steam locomotive at Middleton colliery near Leeds, West Yorkshire. Mining engineer and inventor John Blenkinsop (1783-1831) designed the first practicable steam locomotive, the Salamanca, in 1812. It operated by means of a rack and pinion system. Richard Trevithick had built a steam locomotive in 1805 for Wylam colliery, but it had been too heavy for the cast iron rails it was meant to run on. Middleton colliery laid iron edge rails, which were stronger than those used at Wylam. Blenkinsop went on to build three further locomotives for the colliery, which carried on operating on the railway into the 1830s. In the meantime, further improvements in rail design meant that heavier adhesion locomotives could be used, superseding Blenkinsop's rack and pinion engines. From "British Railways", by Arthur Elton. [Collins, London, 1945]

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