1936-39 Arab revolt Palestine

[MarkEvans]

Hi all,

Im looking at gaming the 1936-39 Arab revolt Palestine and so need some miniatures which will do for the Arabs and Jewish factions. Any suggestions for miniatures or links etc is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance guys.

Mark

[Arlequín]

Artizan do some suitable Arabs in their WW1 range for rural types, but some urban Arabs wore European style clothes with Arab headwear. British and Jewish Settlement Police are a little more problematic as shorts were worn very much like WW2 North Africa, but they had WW1 style webbing and Lewis Guns instead of Brens. Australians in slouch hats will double for the JSP (although some also wore a fez-like tall hat). 

[Sky Captain]

Gripping Beast has some WW1 British in shorts who might work?

But I think they are all riflemen and the officers & Lewisgunners are in trousers.
They also sell arab heads who might perhaps be combined with empress scw figures?

[Arlequín]

I'd forgot about them! An upper body swap would work for the Lewis Gunners and perhaps the officers too. IIRC Gripping beast heads do work with Empress SCW, so there's your urban Arabs too. Good thinking that man!   

[carlos marighela]

I have seen a photo of 1st Border Regiment in Palestine in 1938 wearing slouch hats, khaki, aertex shirts, with '08 pattern webbing shorts and rolled puttees. According to Mike Chappell this set a trend for slouch hats in Palestine.

It's another one of those transitional phases. On the whole though you would get away with Great War era figures in shorts and Wolseley helmet, Copplestone, Brigade etc. Pulp figures do Brits in collared shirts but they are all wearing '37 pattern webbing, which didn't really see widespread issue until just before the outbreak of war. All depends on how anal you want to be.

Worth remembering that Palestine isn't all glorious sunshine and balmy nights, it gets cold in winter and so figures in serge service dress are a possibility. Mix and match is another possibility. The same ref that has the picture of the Border Regt shows men of the Manchesters in Egypt in 1936 wearing service dress jackets and tropical shorts, topped off with tin hats.

[Genialjim]

Carlos,

Would be interested to here what the source for the image of the SW Borderers is.

Regards

Jim

[carlos marighela]

Jim,

The photos are contained in a handy little booklet from Wessex Military Publishing:

The British Soldier in the 20th Century, Vol 6 Tropical Uniforms by Mike Chappell. Loads of great photos, some quite unusual and the usual good Osprey type plates from Mr Chappell. OOP for a very long while but you might get lucky and find one second hand like I did some years ago. Picked this one up for a song along with a title on the Welch Regiment.

BTW it was the Border Regiment not the SWB.

[traveller]

Interesting topic! I had some plans for this myself, planning to use early WW2 brits. My limited research found two interesting images from Palestine:

[Genialjim]

Carlos,

Thanks for the tip.  I had not come across the series before but a browse on the web revealed a number of interesting titles in the series, which I frittered money on.

Traveller,

The Getty photo library has some interesting photos of the uprising particularly of RN landing parties.

Regards

Jim

[traveller]

Traveller,

The Getty photo library has some interesting photos of the uprising particularly of RN landing parties.

Regards

Jim

Sounds interesting but I couldn´t find them, do you have a link?

[Genialjim]

Traveller,

Apolagies for the delay in getting back, here are the imiges:





Of a related note can I recommend Anthony Clayton British Empire as a Superpower to any one intrested in interwar British military commiments.

Regards

James

[traveller]

Cool pictures!

Thanks!