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I went to the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition today. The front of the Academy contains this.
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A really nicely made memorial, Mars and Minerva look really good.
Thank you for sharing. Chris |
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Very cool!!!! I don't think it's off topic at all. I am a fan of the Artist Rifles.
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Thanks for the link. Nice article, but I can not take it serious about the correct designations of the regiment. It only uses " Artists Rifles " as the general name.
From several sources: Raised in 1860 as: 38th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps. In 1877: 38th Middlesex (Artists) RVC. The 1880 renumbering made it: 20th Middlesex (Artists) RVC Into the Territorial Force as: 28th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Artists Rifles) (TF) etc. etc. Present: 21st Special Air Service Regiment (Artists) (R) The official designation never was " Artists " or " Artists Rifles ". They were only secondary titles (but of course used by everybody, the regiment itself in the first place, as the name). Ray Westlake in Tracing the Rifle Volunteers uses " Artists ". Regiment.org uses " Artists " as well as " Artists' ". I would really like to know what is correct for what period in history.
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I would have thought that if an apostrophe was used it would be on the cap badge.
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I also saw a picture of a helmet plate dated 1878-80 with 38 / ARTISTS And same from a helmet plate dated there 1880-90 with 20 / ARTISTS. It seems that indeed all badges have no apostrophe. BTW, Wikipedia has the apostrophe in the names of the 38th Middlesex RVC and the 20th Middlesex RVC.
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If the Artists Rifles Association website can't decide , what chance have we !
Artists Rifles Association 28th County of London Battalion (Artist's Rifles) The Artists' Rifles adopted the 'Mars and Minerva' motif as their badge. http://artistsriflesassociation.org/...sts-rifles.htm Edit : Forces War Records site contains this : "The Artists Rifles (originally Artists’ Rifles until the apostrophe was officially dropped from the full title in 1937 as it was so often misused)" .
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It's a really nice plaque. I keep meaning to take an image of the one outside of the old depot of the Royal Leicestershire Regt.
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I do however wonder what "misuse of an apostrophe" means. I will let my fantasy work.
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This was the entrance to their headquarters in the Duke of Yorks HQ in the King’s Road, not sure if it is still there as it was redeveloped about 20 years ago for housing.
I would imagine that as the Artists Rifles were an Officer Training Corps in WW1 and did not deploy to France as a Battalion until 1917, most of the 2003 would have been serving with other regiments or corps. |
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That's fabulous, but it does remind me of a school entrance
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I have some stuff from him though. His name was Winsford PEARSE. I can supply his number if anyone would like to dig around. |
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First Name: Winisford Surname: Pearse Regiments served with: Unit Rank Service Number London Regiment Private 2710 London Regiment Private 760296 Archive Reference: WO 372/15/174421 (Can be found at The National Archives in Kew, and contains First World War, War Office: Service Medal and Award Rolls Index) |
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