31368 Confederate Texas Brigade Infantry Advancing at Right Shoulder No.2 W. Britains-Pride & Prejudice Sir John Ross of Galloway

Sir John Ross of Galloway hails from the south west part of Scotland and was an early supporter of Robert the Bruce

250 half tracks especially adapted for his personal use

His two most famous creations were “Willie and Joe” two battle-weary and bedraggled infantrymen who stoically endure all the many trials and tribulations (and dangers) of front line soldiering

In February 1930 his enemies caught up with him and he was shot by two left wing assassins

A ‘stand-alone’

31368 Confederate Texas Brigade Infantry Advancing at Right Shoulder No.2 W. Britains-Pride & Prejudice Sir John Ross of GallowayThis well uniformed soldier appears as he might have been dressed at the battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) in 1862. A series of photographs of the 1st Texas encamped before the battle shows soldiers wearing gray single breasted frock coats trimmed in black. This man wears a dark forage cap, with brass lettering on the top. Both North and South imported massive amounts of military goods from England during the war, and this soldier carries a British army