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Thread #6188   Message #499998
Posted By: Liz the Squeak
06-Jul-01 - 02:37 PM
Thread Name: John Tams Sharpes Rifles series
Subject: RE: John Tams Sharpes Rifles series
There's another one that carries on after Trafalgar, can't remember the title, new out in hardback.... got a sailing ship on the cover.

Walrus - Dorset Military Museum. Someone came and took detailed descriptions/photos/notes of our bell topped shakos and the plumed cavalry helmet of which there are very few left intact, as most were bastardised by removal of the full helmet plume (from eyebrow ridge to below the neck guard) to change it into the shorter plume that didn't reach the neck. I think we even had an Essex Regiment bell top to show them. Don't know how the Dorsetshire Regiment or the Queen's Own Dorset Yeomanry (Queen Anne I think that is....) got hold of a Buffs shako, but there we are...

LTS