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Hunting down the past - Major Mitchell
We have a very limited knowledge of Sergeant-Major Dominick Mitchell, the-some-time 2-i-c of the original Prince Rupert’s Bluecoats. The...
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Hunting down the past - The Officers of a Regiment
When I joined the regiment in 1998, there were four regional companies making up the regiment as a whole. For various reasons they were...
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Bluecoat Broadsheet
The early days of the Sealed Knot have taken on a kind of legendary air within the modern society. It seems unreal, certainly unlikely,...
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History of the Bluecoats
"They were like a wall of brass." An epithet that looms large over the history of the regiment, a fearless last stand in the face of...