Featured battle : Kilsyth

Part of The Civil Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Date : 15 August 1645

The Royalists had taken station on the meadows alongside Colzium Burn where they waited for the Covenanters to attack. The Covenanters with 6,000 foot and 800 horse were seemingly given all the advantages but they were commanded by a committee who overruled their leader, Ballie. Poor generalship caused them to make a disastrous move across the front of the Royalists who then exploited this error to the full. Only a few hundred of the Covenanter infantry lived through the day though all of their leaders escaped.

The Badges of Kitchener's Army

David Bilton
This book has the wow! factor. Packed full of information, a real reference gem.
In its 351 pages, the badges of sixty nine infantry regiments are covered with explanatory text and over a thousand illustrations. Also, oft neglected, Divisional and Brigade badges are included. Every one of the illustrations of badges and of men wearing them is an original photograph. The text, often as an annotation to a photograph, is fully informative and where the author doesn’t have the necessary knowledge he says so. I rather fear that, after his thirty years research, if David Bilton doesn’t know then it is unlikely that the knowledge is anywhere to be found.
This book will be of interest to many people from the person with a passing interest to the most knowledgeable collector. I defy anyone who picks it up intending to look at one regiment to put it down with out looking at a few more.
We highly recommend this invaluable research tool.

Pen & Sword Military, 2018