From: "Tim Jeffreys", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A few years ago I donated a trophy box that I had acquired from an antiques
fair to the Artists Rifles Club for their display cabinets.
It was a small walnut box, approx. 5" x 7", with a blue baize lining, which
probably originally contained a .22" four
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Do you know where the first artists came from? As it says Artists! also
penniless rouges and people with no money and nothing better to do! I think
that that was in the late 19 Th. century. I have a brief history somewhere, I
will dog it up one day. Mars and Mernurva
From: nick royall, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ah, that limited edition print, given to one of the previous clubhouse
owners by the person who bought the lease from him and is one of the people
in the picture. I will remind people again why we hold charitable status as
a sport, it is so that in times of
From: "Peter Sarony", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kenneth:
There is a poster or plaque, can't remember which, over the entrance. It has
3 black clad soldiers, reapirators, etc. One holds an MP5, another a grenade
and the third a Remington 870 I think.
They are crouching, and the words 'stand by, stand
From: nick royall, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The Motto of the Artists Rifles is "Artia cum Marte" which translate as
"fine Art with war" and the badge symbols are the Minerva, Roman Goddess of
the arts and Mars, god of war and was designed by W. Wyon, who was the
designer of the coinage for queen
From: "IG", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kenneth:
There is a poster or plaque, can't remember which, over the entrance. It has
3 black clad soldiers, reapirators, etc. One holds an MP5, another a grenade
and the third a Remington 870 I think.
They are crouching, and the words 'stand by, stand by' are
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IG said:
Only thing that put me off was the sad
poster with the motto of the pilgrims'we are the pilgrims master,
etc'. Would appeal to the wannabes tho.
Sorry boss, but that's a bit too arcane for me. Would the Guru IGggy
enlighten his chela.
Kenneth
From: "Jim Franklin", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[.]
Actually I've always thought a definitive history
of the Artist's Rifles would be quite interesting,
I hear often that they formed a regiment that became
21 SAS but little more than that.
[.]
True.
The history of the Artists is available
