VictorianMilitarySoc

The Victorian Military Society promotes interest in all aspects of Victorian & Edwardian military history. Tweets by Andrew Smith, Chairman & Journal Editor.

[VictorianMilitarySoc @BritishSquare]

Ready for the Fourth of July? How will you be marking the occasion?
We mean, of course, the Battle of Ulundi, 4th July 1879

[Tippermuir Books @TippermuirBooks]

Second Volume of our Black Watch series is out. The Black Watch From The Crimea to Coomasie & Beyond resurrects valuable but forgotten histories otherwise destined to remain forgotten or unknown in archives and family papers. #history #MilitaryHistory @SM@SMH_Historians @whencyclopedia @BritMilHistory @mrldgg @Battle_History #BlackWatch #3Scots @crimeanwar @BritishSquare @S_M_R_G @societyarmy @HistoryofWarMag

[theknightirish @theknightirish]

Spending the afternoon constructively before the natives descend on the local watering hole this evening for their sport… @BritishSquare

[Empire Aesthetics @Empireaesth]

The Honourable Artillery Company

- Richard Caton Woodville Jr. (1909)

[Heart of Oak ⚓️ @HMWarships]

On this day in naval history, 1908: Lord Nelson-class pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Agamemnon was commissioned.

HMS Agamemnon was a Lord Nelson-class pre-dreadnought battleship launched in 1906 and completed in 1908, making her one of the Royal Navy’s last pre-dreadnoughts. At the start of World War I, she served with the Channel Fleet before moving to the Mediterranean in 1915 for the Dardanelles Campaign, where she bombarded Turkish positions and supported Allied troops. After the campaign, she remained in the Mediterranean to help contain German naval forces and notably shot down the German Zeppelin LZ-55 (LZ-85) in 1916. In 1918, the Armistice of Mudros, ending hostilities between the Ottoman Empire and the Allies, was signed aboard the ship. Returning to Britain in 1919, Agamemnon was converted into a radio-controlled target ship and entered service in that role in 1921. She became the Royal Navy’s last active pre-dreadnought before being retired, replaced in 1926, and scrapped in 1927.

[Antipodean Empire 🇦🇺 @AntipodeEmpire]

Maypole dancers at Federation celebrations. Melbourne, Victoria 🇦🇺🇬🇧 1901

[The History Press @TheHistoryPress]

#OnThisDay in 1857, the first investiture of the Victoria Cross in Hyde Park, London. Learn more👉: https://t.co/FP6J6ZTz7c #OTD #BritishHistory #LondonHistory

[📜Echoes of Empire📜 @EchoesofEmpire_]

“The British Commonwealth In Arms” (1918)

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

Once again as I travel I like to pay my respects at the cemeteries maintained immaculately by the @CWGC. This in Malta is no exception…

[Old England in Colour @englandincolour]

Rare footage of Queen Victoria in colour at Balmoral in 1896.

[Empire Aesthetics @Empireaesth]

King-Emperor George V in his coronation robes after the Delhi Durbar (1911)

[Dr Ross Mahoney @AirPowerHistory]

On behalf of the Queensland Military Historical Society, please see the attached call for papers for their upcoming Military History Summit. #CfP #MilHist #plsRT

[London Historians @LondonHistorian]

Today marks the first public awarding of the VC, by Queen Victoria herself, in 1857. Hyde Park. She chose to do the whole thing on horseback, somewhat to the surprise of the organisers. There were 62 recipients. Veterans of Crimea. More here:
https://t.co/5v1mTDZSQx

[Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine @militaryhistori]

Chalke History Festival 2026, views #2.
Waistcoats, paintings and hats for sale. A surreal encounter with a pair of shopping shamans.

[Empire Aesthetics @Empireaesth]

On this day in 1857, the first 62 recipients receive the Victoria Cross for valour in the Crimean War.

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

26 June 1830. George IV (left) died (aged 67) and his brother, William IV (right), ascended the throne. He inherited the throne (aged 64), making him the oldest British monarch to do so up to that date. He was the penultimate monarch of Britain's House of Hannover.

[WW1LEICESTERTIGERS @apg1916]

Latest purchase, wounded South Africa in 1900 by shrapnel, again in the Great War 1st battalion, Leicestershire regiment

[Old England in Colour @englandincolour]

Soldiers receive medals in 1915, a 'Remember Our Wounded at the Front' collection.

[Empire Aesthetics @Empireaesth]

Crimean War veterans of the 95th Regiment of Foot (1856)

[Mercian Regiment @MercianRegiment]

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