José María Bueno Carrera

One of my favourite illustrators and historians

A website with many of his illustrations of the Spanish Foreign Legion

http://server4.foros.net/viewtopic.php?t=3&mforum=LEGIONARIO

The following plates were lifted from:
http://www.portierramaryaire.com/foro/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1827&st=0&sk=t&sd=a





Plates from Soldados de España. El uniforme militar espanol desde los Reyes Catolicos hasta Juan Carlos I

Uniforms from WWII

http://miniaturasmilitaresalfonscanovas.blogspot.com/2011/09/uniformes-de-la-segunda-guerra-mundial.html

Bueno also provided illustrations for cards, cutouts and magazines. I hope that we can collect as many of these on this thread, because they are hard to find.


Tropas del Sahara


Mountain Artillery, 1846

Dragones de Numancia


Regimento de Alcantara, 1922


Infantry, 1858

Over the years I have managed to acquire most of Bueno's published works, starting with the series of cards showing the various units participating in Franco's victory parade of 1939. However two of his books that escaped me were those dealing with the "Tropas Nomades" (indigenous camel troops based in the Spanish Sahara) and the one in the "Alfonso XIII 1908-31" series covering the dragoon regiments. They are of course long out of print but anyone who could steer me to a website or other source with material from either of these books would win my undying gratitude (for an hour or so anyway).

Any chance of posting the postcards of troops from the victory parade?
I have not seen those.
Unfortunately I don't have the books you noted, although the http://miniaturasmilitaresalfonscanovas.blogspot.com
website has some copies of the AMME Boletin which I think has some of Bueno's work on the saharan troops.

Thanks for this Sean.



I will post some of the victory parade figures as soon as I have finished unpacking (have just moved to the country as they say), The 20 odd cards are big though with a large number of separate figures on each (this is a cabo of Moorish regulares, this is a sergeant of Moorish regulares etc etc). May have to settle for a selection.

Any would be appreciated. Unfortunately your picture didn't come through.

Another website with a selection of figures throughout
http://www.museocjv.com/soldadosinformacion.htm

Carlists
http://miniaturasmilitaresalfonscanovas.blogspot.com/2011/05/tropas-carlistas-1833-1840-de-don-jose.html
http://miniaturasmilitaresalfonscanovas.blogspot.com/2011/05/tropas-carlistas-1833-1840-del-libro.html
http://miniaturasmilitaresalfonscanovas.blogspot.com/2011/05/tropas-carlistas-1833-1840-de-un-libro.html

1502 ARQUERO DE BORGOA?

1518 TROMPETA DE CABALLERIA

1598 ABANDERADO TERCIO INFANTERIA

1703 DRAGON TERCIO DE VALANZAT

1742 PRIMER REGIMIENTO DE HUSARES

1746 TIMBALERO GUARDIAS DE CORPS

1810 HUSARES GUARDIA REAL

http://miniaturasmilitaresalfonscanovas.blogspot.com/2011/10/nuestras-tropas-en-guinea-fuente-djose.html

Troops for Spanish Guinea

As promised above, an example of one of Jose M. Bueno's early works - a large series of plates covering (apparently) all of the units that took part in Franco's victory parade in Madrid in 1939. The plates include Spanish regulars of all branches, colonial troops, various political militias, police, navy, marines, Italians and Germans. The example shown above is a "tabor de Caballeria de Regulares de Melilla" (Moorish cavalry from Spanish Morocco). If anyone is particularly interested in one or another of these categories I will post the appropriate plates on this thread.

At the request of fellow member Abadu, who is researching the Spanish Army of Africa, attached is a Bueno print of a sub-lieutenant and a sergeant of the 1st Battalion of the Cazadores de Africa. Both are in the gala dress of 1848-49. There were two battalions of "African Hunters" (i.e. light infantry) both raised in 1848 from Spanish volunteers to garrison the enclave towns of Cueta and Melilla. The Spanish do not appear to have recruited local Moroccan troops in any numbers (other than scouts, some police and one or two short-lived units) until the famous Regulares were established in 1911.

Amazing! Does the book mention the color of the facings of the 2nd Battalion?

Apparently both wore the regulation uniforms for cazadore regiments of the Peninsular Army - that is line infantry dress with red facings but with green fringed epaulettes, shako tops, plumes and sword tassels to denote their status as light infantry. Bueno does not describe their service dress, except to mention the substitution of green "pompones" for plumes on the shako. However it seems likely that some sort of fatigue or undress uniform would be substituted for tight coatees and heavy shakos in the climate of North Africa.

Artist unkown to me, someone here may know the signature,

Uniforms of the Spanish Foreign Legion by J. M. Bueno:

http://server4.foros.net/viewtopic.php?t=3&mforum=LEGIONARIO

West Indian senior NCO & Indian infantry officer



NSW Lancer officer & Canadian Guards officer

Even with a prodigious output, his sure hand never fails him. He is the artist for several hundred drawings in Zweguintzow's multivolume condensation of Viskovatov on the imperial Russian army.

Here is a plate from the Company of Military Historians:
(I like the lieutenant-colonel's natty hat, but carrying both a walking stick and a sword seems a bit much.)