WW1 British Battle Insignia
WW1 British Battle Insignia Author:Kevin Beckhurst Language:English Text Format:Hardcover Dimensions:8.5" x 12" Pages:220 pages Photos:color and b+w wartime photos Publisher:Military Mode Publishing ISBN:MML-89415 Item No. 9781513625690 This is a bit of a departure from the books that we normally expect to see from Military Mode. Rather than a photographic catalog of rare and exciting artifacts, it is something of a Rosetta Stone, a key to deciphering the very complex system of colored unit recognition insignia developed by the BEF during the Great War. The Imperial War Museum reached out to all units of the British Army after the Armistice, asking them to reply with details on their own specific unit identification color patches and painted insignia. Not all replied, but many did. Kevin Beckhurst, a collector and researcher, sorted through this primary source material decades later to produce a massive (31cm x 22cm x 10cm), one-off, hand illustrated tome e