I am slowly working my way through them. He was a man before his time when it came to writing about military insignia and his work on OTCs and VTCs was far superior to Kipling or Gaylor's writings.
The fact we was writing between the wars, during WW2 and into the 1950s provides a level of contemporary accuracy that is missing in later articles. In an era before the information age, he was often reliant on what he could gather from correspondence with museums, old soldiers and units directly. The fact that he did receive letters about his articles providing feedback and clarification is illuminating.
Alan
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