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THE Undersigned has exceived In. structions to sell by Public Auc-
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THURSDAY, Fobronry. 28, 1920, commencing at it ..
No. 15% Wanchai Rowl
A quantity of
Valuable Household Furniture, (Full Particolars from Catalog. a). Also
Ooo Coting Piano in goed, condition.
Caris feon Wednesday, the 25th
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with all the signs and symbols that meant so much, to him. As civilians each man is distinguishable from his fellow; the part he played the job he set his hand to the regiment that was his pride, each symbol has de- parted, and he is infinitely the poorer for the loss.
portion being given to the first de- coration, be it the Mons Star, the D.S.O.. or D.S.M., the Military Cross or Military Medal, the Terri
The torial Decoration, and so on. indefinite outline of the colours of the 1914 and 1915 star can be represent ed by wavy lines dividing the red, white, and blue. A large number of decorations can be arranged by put
The soldier and the sailor love colour. They are not concerned with æsthetic tints or sunset effects, but
But is it necessary, after all, to as men of a simple life and a prac- tical calling they love the primary, set aside these things? A just instiner colours for their significance; they in the English character refuses to disting the principal one on the left and play these signs in civilian dress, bur dividing the right-hand side into as as there are rib- make of them a language. The paci- there is another and a finer way. In many "quarterings
bons. In this way a brilliant heraldic Ast. may deride the elemental brit the Middle Ages, when badges and liance of the dress uniform and the symbols were in common use, men background can be produced, telling found a delightful means of record faithfully each man's military history. A step further, and on the coloured regimental colours: the soldier seesing and preserving them. The man reflected in them the glory of great who wore his device upon his service shield we can place the wound stripes The dress-his coat-armour-also wished as thin bars of gold right across the exploits and historic actions. signals Rown from the flagship speak to perpetuate the same. In battle and upper part of the shield giving them
in tourney he showed it on his shield, the place of honour.
Rank can be marked by its appro- the sailor with a directness and a
his helmet, and his standard, and relish born of the wind and the sky; every fight that saw, let us say, the priate charges. The aval officer can free from verbiage and the enrangling three chevrons of Sir. Walter de place his bars of gold lace across the Manny, endeared the device to him- parti-coloured Beld on a broad blue -perversities_of_prin
self and his friends. So the King's-horizontal strip (the "less"). The And what a language the Fighting Heralds and the Marshals of the party officers' badges, either in red or services have made for themselves in Tourney invented a system by which gold, according to convenience, can the Great War! They have a symbol these personal marks should have pro- be charged on appropriate parts of the per recognition and be handed down shield of on a diagonal blue strip (the in gold braid. bright silk, cloth, or
Send". The Army badges can metal for everything that they wish from generation to generation as
And this system, likewise be distributed ever the field, to make known. Some of them have family insignia.
with the simple rules that first govern the gold stars and crowns being placed been the possession of the Army and the Navy from the days before theed it, grew into the wonderful thing on the patches of colour. The ser- we call heraldry, which has proved geant's chevrons and the private's but many created by this uprising of the vital one of the most brilliant and joyous various badges can be effectively. contending forces which the past five motives of decoration in medieval and shown in the same way, or they can be placed on a khaki "bend," civid- years have witnessed. The gold lace renaissance art.
ing the colours of the ribbons by a ul the naval officer, the chevrors and
diagonal partition of the shield.
war.
morc
been have
Badges and symbols, born of war,
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the anchors of the non-commissioned made the first heraldry, and from it all Air Force badges follow those of the ranks, the batons, crowns, and stars the family cognisances of Europe have Navy, with the addition of the wings of the Army officer, the gold chev sprung. But with the decline of the of the pilot and the observer which rons of the sergeant, and the similar arts. heraldry also declined, and as give a delightful turn to the design.. tokens adopted by the Air Force spell the year of its nascent vigour faded Add to these the service chevrons, out the varying degrees of rank: rib-in the distance, its value became which (with the exception of naval bons barred with colour proclaim, the gradually narrowed down the dis officers can most readily be shown on campaign in which each man has play of the alliances of limited num- the General Service ribbon, and we the ber of families. What, one would have our complete material, heraldic fought, and distinguish him as winner of a cross of medal for gal-like to know, would the heralds of the in every detail. If we take care to antry: red. blue, goid, and silver Thirteenth Century have done in the follow as far as possible the old chevrons tell the number of years he presence of all the inviting badges heraldic rule of colour on metal and has served abroad in the Great War; used by the fighting hen of the Great vice versa, where the metals are yel thin bars of gold speak of his honour- War? is not the opportunity now low (gold) and white (silver), we shall able wounds. A host of other signs even a greater one than that of be surprised at the number of beauti there are to be read--the crest and their day, and the heraldry that was ful combinations that can be made. badges of bis regiment; the strips of born of war, has it not already beenThe rule does not apply to pard- colour is denote his battalion or the reborn before our eyes? To let this coloured grounds, but in every design division with which he fought; sym- ample material go were to cast away boldness of outline and simplicity of bols showing his special duties, for the very elements of art. There is arrangement should be the chief, aku, pedoes and flags, axes and rifles, the need for a method which will per and a selection of ribbons should be red cross for the stretcher bearer, a petuate each man's service in an elo-made where the number is too great red. T for the funneller mining quent, directy and beautiful form for clear definition.-W. H. GOD- engineer, green and black stripes for And.. granted the possibility, who
PRET, F.S.A., the anti-gas officer wheels for the would deny to our soldiers and sallows cyclist. Was there ever such the privilege of bearing their war vocabulary of signs, wri; in colour, insignia on an escutcheon of honour known and loved by an Army that for Let us experiment with a few such once could be said, to embrace the shields.We will.olour one of them whole nation, so lew were they who first with the blue, black, and white either themselves or by their fathers, stripes and yellow centre of the gen-" husbards, sons, and brothers, did not eral service ribbon, and on the yellow share in the fortunes of the great we will place three blue chevrons for the years of service overseas. This muster for England's defence.
And now when peace and victory is the simplest record, but there are Are you and the strong mat lays by many men who have more than one. his arms and the disabled, puts off the ribbon, and another shield, can be uniform that showed his honour the divided vertically, horizontally or soldier feels a keen regret în parling | diagonally, the upper or the left-hand
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