Errors

Misleading Information in Published Works

Introduction
It is not the intention to belittle the work of authors of the books listed below, rather to draw attention to any inadvertent errors present in them to readers, especially those who are of the legions of armour modellers world-wide desirous of adding an authentic touch to their work.
        ♦ By placing accurate insignia and markings on individual tanks.
        ♦ By using accurate information describing a diorama.
        ♦ By using accurate information describing an action, event or location.
The only book found to accurately portray 25th Tank Brigade's insignia is B.T.White's, published in 1978, listed in the sources below. The author during research in his listed acknowledgements may have come across the 25th Tank Brigade's Narrative of Operations (which click on to more clearly view the cover) listed in the sources below, each copy of which is hand signed by the Brigade's Commanding Officer, Brigadier Tetley, on one page and portraying the Brigade's insignia in full color on another. Considering the uniformity of incorrect identification of brigade insignia in books published before White's, it is a reasonable conclusion that the authors probably used Hodge's book as their source.

As checking for mistakes has been confined to Churchills and units equipped with them, no guarantee is made that other errors do not exist.

Index
This article is in three parts - books that display insignia, those that do not, and observations on errors, except relating to insignia, common to more than one book.

Part One
1. British Military Markings 1939-1945. Author: Peter Hodges
2. The Churchill Tank. Author: Bryan Perrett
3. Churchill Infantry Tank 1941-51. Author: Bryan Perrett
4. British & Commonwealth Armoured Formations (1919-45). Author: Duncan Crow
5. Divisions and Brigades of the British Army 1939-45. Author: Malcolm A. Bellis
Part Two
6. Mr. Churchill's Tank. Author: David Fletcher
7. The North Irish Horse - A Hundred Years of Service. Author: Richard Doherty
8. Modelling the Churchill Tank Author: Mark J.Bannerman.
Part Three
Dust and the Churchill Tank. Books 2, 3 & 7.
Principal Sources
♦ Italian Campaign - Narrative of Operations of 25th Tank Brigade.
   British Historical Section, Central Mediterranean, 31 March 1946.
♦ British Tank Markings and Names.
   Author: B.T.White. Publisher: Arms and Armour Press, London, 1978
♦ With Churchills to War
   Author: Peter Gudgin. Publisher: Sutton Publishing Ltd., Stroud, England, 1996.
♦ Chris Shillito's Armour in Focus.
♦ Peter Ghiringhelli's British Formation Signs.