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Set 99a is an add-on set to set 99 and includes six additional figures representing the Pipe Band of the Coldstream Guards. This six piece set has two men with trombones, two with euphoniums, and two with cornets. The men are in the regimental musicians uniform of bearskin, red tunic with gold lace,...

Set 99a is an add-on set to set 99 and includes six additional figures representing the Pipe Band of the Coldstream Guards. This six piece set has two men with trombones, two with euphoniums, and two with cornets. The men are in the regimental musicians uniform of bearskin, red tunic with gold lace,...

Raised in 1838 as an Auxiliary Force they later became the 6th Irregular Cavalry and during the Scinde campaign 1842-43 were organised into a camel corps with troopers operating in pairs with one riding and the other acting as an infantry man. For their part in this campaign the regiment earned the ...

At the Battle of Waterloo, Uxbridge commanded the thirteen thousand allied cavalry and forty-four guns of horse artillery. He personally lead a series of cavalry charges. He is in the uniform of his regiment the 7th Hussars. His horse carries a schabraque of regimental pattern.

Attached to the 21st Lancers during the battle of Omdurman in the Sudan wars was Lieutenant Winston Churchill of the 4th Hussars.

Attached to the 21st Lancers during the battle of Omdurman in the Sudan wars was Lieutenant Winston Churchill of the 4th Hussars.

At dawn on the 2nd September 1898, the battle of Omdurman commenced with the advance of the 50,000 strong Mahdist army. Met by the terrible fire power of Sir Herbert Kitchener's force of British, Egyptian and Sudanese many of the Mahdist army began a retreat to Omdurman. Fearing that they may regrou...

Zulu War Series Left to guard a river crossing, stores, and the sick, a small garrison of British troops found themselves standing between the Zulu nation and Natal. The date was January 22, 1879. The place, Rorke's Drift. Lieutenant Chard of the Royal Engineers had been repairing damage to nearby p...

After the evacuation of Gallipoli, a New Zealand Infantry Division was formed to serve in France. The men in this set are in full marching order. By now all men wore the lemon squeezer hat which had evolved from the slouch, and had an entrenching tool added to their equipment. In March 1916 the New ...

This regiment also fought in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. They wear black fur caps with blue bags, and wear dark blue jacket and slung pelisse, both with white looping and lace. Between 1800 and 1807 the British army converted four regiments of Light Dragoons into Hussar regiments. These become th...

Throughout the wars Napoleons two regiments of carabiners always served together, and along with the regiments of cuirassiers made up the heavy cavalry of the grande armee. Though not a part of Napoleons Imperial Guard they were still considered elite regiments within the army with a reputation for ...

When Louis Napoleon, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte was made King of Holland in 1806, a new regiment of grenadiers or the royal guard was formed. These Dutch Grenadiers were made part of the French Imperial Guard in 1810 when Holland was annexed into the French Empire. In 1811, when the guard was exp...

The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) army forces were organised from three types of military service; the regular army made up divisions one through eight, state based national guards units that were federalised made up divisions twenty-six through forty-two, and selective service or draft divisi...

The American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) army forces were organised from three types of military service; the regular army made up divisions one through eight, state based national guards units that were federalised made up divisions twenty-six through forty-two, and selective service or draft divisi...

A gallant dandy with short jacket and striped silk waistcoat. He wears a low crowned top hat and breeches fastened under the shoes, to become gaiters.

The two regiments of Fusiliers formed in 1806 were each of only one battalion, with their officers drawn from the ranks of the Old Guard, and the Line Regiments, and were to provide Napoleon with an elite alternative to using the Old Guard. Though first employed in Spain, their first major action wa...

Josef Antoni Poniatowski, Commander-in-chief of the Polish armies in the service of France. Loyally served Napoleon with his Polish corps in Russia. During the Battle of Liepzig was made Marshal of France. His horse schabracque bears the Polish eagle.

Set 99 includes seven figures in unique poses representing the Pipe Band of the Coldstream Guards. This seven piece set has five men (Drum major, trombonist, trumpeter, Tuba player and cymbal player) in the regimental musicians uniform of bearskin, red tunic with gold lace, and armed with sword. The...

Set 86 consists of three mounted cossacks, two troopers and one bugler. They wear the Cossack fur cap, shival long coat, Cossack cartridge pouch, and are armed with lance, musket and shashka sword. Drawn from the Army of the Caucasus, cossacks were at this time considered the best light cavalry in t...

As commander of the Light Cavalry Brigade, Cardigan led the infamous "Charge of the Light Brigade" upon his warhorse Ronald. His pelisse worn closed has brown fur trim, gold braid and lace. From his waist belt, like his men, is suspended sword scabbard and undress sabretache. Just before midday at t...

Set 66 is a single mounted officer of Coldstream Guards (1854). The uniform of the Guards has come to represent the traditional toy soldier; Red Tunic with white belts, blue trousers, bearskin hat, backpack and pattern 53 Enfield rifle. Founded in 1650, and named the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guar...

Set 67 is the colour party for the Coldstream Guards and features two ensigns carrying the Queens/Union Colour and the Regimental Colour, each displaying battle honours. The colour party escort of four colour sergeants have back-packs and wear with their bayonet and short sword. Founded in 1650, and...

Each Russian infantry battalion carried one colour, all similar with green cross, and central disc bearing the Imperial eagle, and in each corner the royal cipher. The colour was borne central in the front rank. Set 76 consists of six Russian Line Infantry figures from the 23rd Azov Regiment; five s...

This set of six pioneers of the Coldstream Guard are on the march carrying their axes at slope and their rifles slung. At the time of the Crimean War, 1854, each British army battalion had a pioneer unit, comprising one corporal and ten privates. To enable the battalion to perform its role on the ma...