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Military art prints and Scottish
regimental military uniform prints showing the King's Own Scottish
Borderers in military paintings of battle scenes by Douglas Anderson,
Richard Simkin, Richard Caton Woodville and Harry Payne.
Raised in 1689 under the name of Earl
Leven's Regiment becoming the 25th of Foot in 1751. The
Victoria cross has been won by six member's of the regiment. The first
being awarded to Lt G H B Coulson DSO (1879 -1901) during the Boer war at
Lambrechtfontein. 18th may 1901. posthumously awarded. Four being also
awarded during World War One and One during The Korean War |
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Borderers in Town by Alan Herriot
The Kings Own Scottish Borderers, marching along Princess Street Edinburgh on the 11th of August each year to celebrate Minden day.
Signed Limited edition of 500. Image size 25 inches x 17 inches (64cm x 43cm). Price £140.00
Limited edition of 50 artist proofs. Image size 25 inches x 17 inches (64cm x 43cm). Price £180.00
Limited edition of 50 giclee canvas prints. Size 30 inches x 24 inches (76cm x 61cm). Price £460.00
ITEM CODE HERR0001
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1st Battalion Kings Owns Scottish Borderers. The Derryard Action, Co Fermanagh, December 13th 1989 by David Rowlands (GL)
On a dark winter evening, the Permanent Vehicle Check Point (PVCP) north of Rosslea, close to the border with Monaghan, was manned by 8 soldiers commanded by Corporal Robert Duncan. In response to a threat to the border locations an additional 4-man team commanded by Corporal Ian Harvey was on external patrol. From the direction of the border a specially armour-plated lorry, with about twelve terrorists intent on destroying the base stopped, and as Private Houston checked the back of it, automatic gunfire opened up from Armalite and AK47 rifles. Grenades were thrown into the base, and a flame-thrower was aimed at the command sangar. Two RPG7 Rockets were fired at the observation sangar. Heavy suppressive fire continued as the lorry reversed and smashed its way into the compound. Two soldiers were killed. The truck drove out of the devastated PVCP, and a red transit van drove in, laden with explosives. Fortunately only the booster charge exploded. As the patrol came up rapidly, firing at the terrorists, the truck drove off at speed, its two machine-guns mounted on the rear firing, its driver intent on escape. It was found abandoned at the border with a 210 kg bomb on board. The scale and type of this attack had never been seen before in Northern Ireland. Every soldier involved acted with exemplary courage and the determination to defeat the enemy. The conduct of Corporals Duncan and Harvey was in the highest traditions of conspicuous gallantry. Each received the Distinguished Conduct Medal. The events of the Derryard Action are a landmark in the modern fighting history of the King's Own Scottish Borderers. I was phoned soon after the action. I flew to Belfast and was driven to the location. In order to paint the action it was important to see the PVCP in its scarred condition, before it was repaired. The lonely, isolated building put me in mind of the beleaguered little forts which dotted this part of Ireland in the time of Queen Elizabeth I. The soldiers took up the positions they had fought in, while I sketched them in their Tam-o'-shanters. Corporal Ian Harvey is in the foreground with Pte Maxwell. Cpl Robert Duncan kneels in the road.
Limited edition of 200 giclee canvas prints. Image size 36 inches x 24 inches (91cm x 61cm). Price £500.00
Limited edition of 200 giclee canvas prints. Image size 30 inches x 20 inches (76cm x 51cm). Price £390.00
ITEM CODE DHM9025
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Kings Own Scottish Borderers by Richard Simkin
Open edition print. Image size 9 inches x 12 inches (23cm x 31cm). Price £14.00
Original chromolithograph. Image size 10 inches x 13 inches. One copy available.. Price £140.00
ITEM CODE UN0251
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The 25th Kings Own Scottish Borderers by G Douglas Giles (P)
Original chromolithograph published 1880. Image size 9 inches x 6 inches (23cm x 15cm). Price £70.00
ITEM CODE UN0480
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Raising the Regiment - The Kings Own Scottish Borderers. March 1689 by Terence Cuneo
Originally the 25th Foot, the regiment was raised in Edinburgh on 18th March 1689 by David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven, for the defence of the city against the Jacobites during the Glorious Revolution that brought William of Orange to England. Records show that the regiment was completely recruited to a strength of 1,000 men within the space of two hours. They were soon required for active service and at the battle of Killiecrankie underwent their baptism of fire against the rebel Highlanders led by Claverhouse. Recognition of the fighting spirit of Levens Edinburgh Regiment came at once in the spontaneous conferment on it, by the Provost of Edinburgh, of the exclusive privilege to recruit by beat of drum in the city on any day, except Sunday, without first asking the permission of the Lord Provost. A further privilege was conferred later, which remains to this day, of marching through the City of Edinburgh with bayonets fixed and Colours flying. In 1782 the historic title of The Edinburgh Regiment was dropped and that of The Sussex Regiment adopted. King George III honoured the regiment in 1805 by raising it to the status of a Royal Regiment and changing its title to The Kings Own Borderers. The change of title to the Kings Own Scottish Borderers was officially approved in 1887, during the reign of Queen Victoria. Cuneo has depicted the scene at Holyrood Abbey at nightfall on 18th March 1689 when 1,000 men answered the call to arms. The Earl of Leven and the Muster Master watch from horseback while the clerk lists the men and issues the first days pay. The yellow ribbon on the arm of the recruit was issued as a mark of recognition until uniform could be provided.
One copy available in good condition. . Price £380.00
One copy available in fair condition. . Price £160.00
ITEM CODE TC0004
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Corporal wheeler dragging a wounded cyclist scout into the shelter of a ditch under the enemys fire.
On October 17th 1915, corporal Harold Ernest Wheeler, of the 2nd Kings Own Scottish Borderers, had just ridden with a patrol, consisting of a Lance Corporal and ten men of the 5th Divisional Cyclist Company, into the village of Lorgies in anticipation that it had been evacuated by the enemy, when, to their surprise, the Germans opened fire in them from some houses. Corporal wheeler thereupon ordered the patrol to retire, but after going a short distance he saw that one of the men had been hit and was lying in the roadway. Going back at great risk to he, dragged the wounded man into the shelter of a ditch by the roadside and the rejoined the rest of the patrol.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0476
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Lance-Corporal M. Parker Holding Turks At Bay In A Mine Gallery.
The emergency in which Lance- Corporal Parker, of the 5th Kings Own Scottish Borderers, proved his prowess was as unexpected as formidable. Parker and his men was on the Gallipoli Peninsula on the 14th September 1915, constructing under the Turkish trenches a mine gallery, which suddenly broke into a hostile gallery. A weird subterranean contest then began. Parker held off the Turks with his rifle though they fired on him and threw bombs at him. Then he was driven out by fumes, but returned and filled up the breach so that a charge might be laid and the enemy's works destroyed. He was awarded the D.C.M.
First World War antique black and white book plate published c.1916-18 of glorious acts of heroism during the Great War. This plate may also have text on the reverse side which does not affect the framed side. Title and text describing the event beneath image as shown. Paper size 10.5 inches x 8.5 inches (27cm x 22cm). Price £13.00
ITEM CODE DTE0008
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Sergeant Major, 25th Foot 1768 by P H Smitherman
Most of the pictures and portraits upon which we rely for information depict officers or privates, sometimes sergeants, but very rarely sergeant-majors. The details of this print come from a contemporary water-colour of several members of the regiment, of whom one is the sergeant-major. his uniform, with its silver lace and smart cut, resembles that of an officer, as it would today. The arrangement of the brim of the hat is worthy of notice. We have seen it develop from earlier pictures to the tricorne shape. Now the front cock has almost disappeared and it is beginning to resemble the modern version of the cocked hat, worn, for instance, by the quartermasters of the Foot Guards. A turned-down collar rather similar to this is shown on the coats of several privates of the Foot Guards depicted in the Blenheim Tapestries, but it was a fashion which must have been very short lived then, because there is no sign of it subsequently until about this date when it was worn almost universally for a few years. The turned-back skirts of the coat have become stylised and less clumsy, and the cuff ahs a slash with four buttons. Oddly enough, in the picture on which this image is based, only the sergeant-major and drummers are shown with slashes, the rest of the regiment having plain buttoned cuffs. This is explained by the fact that the uniform of the sergeant-major, as that of the drummers, was decided by the commanding officer, and possibly bought by him too, so that it would conform more to his wishes than to regulations. The familiar sergeant-majors stick calls for no comment. The 25th Regiment, now the Kings Own Scottish Borderers, was raised in Edinburgh in 1688.
One available. Image size 14 inches x 10 inches (36cm x 25cm). Price £24.00
ITEM CODE PHS0015
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Borderers in Town by Alan Herriot
The Kings Own Scottish Borderers, marching along Princess Street Edinburgh
on the 11th of August each year to celebrate Minden day
1st Battalion Kings Owns Scottish
Borderers. The Derryard Action, Co Fermanagh, December 13th 1989 by David
Rowlands
Raising the Regiment - The Kings Own Scottish
Borderers. March 1689 by Terence Cuneo Originally the 25th Foot, the regiment was raised in Edinburgh on 18th
March 1689 by David Leslie, 3rd Earl of Leven, for the defence of the city
against the Jacobites during the 'Glorious Revolution' that brought
William of Orange to England. Records show that the regiment was
completely recruited to a strength of 1,000 men within the space of two
hours. They were soon required for active service and at the battle of
Killiecrankie underwent their baptism of fire against the rebel
Highlanders led by Claverhouse. Recognition of the fighting spirit of
Leven's Edinburgh Regiment came at once in the spontaneous conferment on
it, by the Provost of Edinburgh, of the exclusive privilege to recruit by
beat of drum in the city on any day, except Sunday, without first asking
the permission of the Lord Provost. A further privilege was conferred
later, which remains to this day, of marching through the City of
Edinburgh with bayonets fixed and Colours flying. In 1782 the historic title of The Edinburgh Regiment was dropped and
that of The Sussex Regiment adopted. King George III honoured the regiment
in 1805 by raising it to the status of a Royal Regiment and changing its
title to The King's Own Borderers. The change of title to the King's Own
Scottish Borderers was officially approved in 1887, during the reign of
Queen Victoria. Cuneo has depicted the scene at Holyrood Abbey at nightfall on 18th
March 1689 when 1,000 men answered the call to arms. The Earl of Leven and
the Muster Master watch from horseback while the clerk lists the men and
issues the first days pay. The yellow ribbon on the arm of the recruit was
issued as a mark of recognition until uniform could be provided.
Corporal wheeler dragging a
wounded cyclist scout into the shelter of a ditch under the enemys fire.
On October 17th 1915, corporal Harold Ernest
Wheeler, of the 2nd Kings Own Scottish Borderers, had just
ridden with a patrol, consisting of a Lance Corporal and ten men of the
5th Divisional Cyclist Company, into the village of Lorgies
in anticipation that it had been evacuated by the enemy, when, to their
surprise, the Germans opened fire in them from some houses.
Corporal wheeler thereupon ordered the patrol to retire, but
after going a short distance he saw that one of the men had been hit and
was lying in the roadway. Going
back at great risk to he, dragged the wounded man into the shelter of a
ditch by the roadside and the rejoined the rest of the patrol.
Lance-Corporal
M. Parker Holding Turks At Bay In A Mine Gallery. The emergency in which Lance- Corporal Parker, of the 5th Kings Own
Scottish Borderers, proved his prowess was as unexpected as formidable.
Parker and his men was on the Gallipoli Peninsula on the 14th
September 1915, constructing under the Turkish trenches a mine gallery,
which suddenly broke into a hostile gallery.
A weird subterranean contest then began.
Parker held off the Turks with his rifle though they fired on him
and threw bombs at him. Then
he was driven out by fumes, but returned and filled up the breach so
that a charge might be laid and the enemy’s works destroyed.
He was awarded the D.C.M.
Sergeant Major, 25th Foot 1768
by P H Smitherman Most of the pictures and portraits upon which we rely for information
depict officers or privates, sometimes sergeants, but very rarely
sergeant-majors. The details of this print come from a contemporary
water-colour of several members of the regiment, of whom one is the
sergeant-major. his uniform, with its silver lace and smart cut,
resembles that of an officer, as it would today. The arrangement of
the brim of the hat is worthy of notice. We have seen it develop
from earlier pictures to the tricorne shape. Now the front cock
has almost disappeared and it is beginning to resemble the modern version
of the cocked hat, worn, for instance, by the quartermasters of the Foot
Guards. A turned-down collar rather similar to this is shown on the
coats of several privates of the Foot Guards depicted in the Blenheim
Tapestries, but it was a fashion which must have been very short lived
then, because there is no sign of it subsequently until about this date
when it was worn almost universally for a few years. The turned-back
skirts of the coat have become stylised and less clumsy, and the cuff ahs
a slash with four buttons. Oddly enough, in the picture on which
this image is based, only the sergeant-major and drummers are shown with
slashes, the rest of the regiment having plain buttoned cuffs. This
is explained by the fact that the uniform of the sergeant-major, as that
of the drummers, was decided by the commanding officer, and possibly
bought by him too, so that it would conform more to his wishes than to
regulations. The familiar sergeant-majors stick calls for no
comment. The 25th Regiment, now the Kings Own Scottish Borderers,
was raised in Edinburgh in 1688. |
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