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Red coat, also referred to as redcoat or scarlet tunic, is a military garment formerly much used by most regiments of the British Army, so customarily that the term became a common synecdoche for the soldiers themselves.
In 1938, the British Army adopted a revolutionary and practical type of uniform for combat known as Battledress; it was widely copied and adapted by armies around the world. [46] During the Second World War a handful of British units adopted camouflage-patterned clothes, for example the airborne forces' Denison smock and the windproof suit.
Commonly used to describe the Napoleonic era British foot soldiers, the British Regulars were known for their distinct red uniform and well-disciplined combat performance. Known famously in British folklore as the Red Coats , these hardened soldiers were the backbone of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
British grenadier of the 40th Regiment of Foot in 1767. The British Army in the 18th century was commonly seen as disciplined, regimented and harsh. [1] Camp life was dirty and cramped with the potential for a rapid spread of disease, [2] and punishments could be anything from a flogging to a death sentence.
The Purchase System in the British Army, 1660–1871. Royal Historical Society, London 1980; Farwell, Byron, Queen Victoria's Little Wars. Wordsworth Military Library, 1973. ISBN 1-84022-216-6; Holmes, Richard. Redcoat. HarperCollins, Hammersmith, 2001. ISBN 0-00-653152-0
Historically, Marine uniforms broadly matched those of the contemporary British Army, at least for full dress. [1] The constraints of shipboard duty however brought some practical considerations - for ordinary work duties during the late 18th and early 19th centuries the marines would put aside their easily stained red coats and wore the loose "slop" clothing [2] of the British sailors (then ...
After the Crimean War (30 January 1855), the War Office ordered different rank badges for British general, staff officers and regimental officers. It was the first complete set of rank badges to be used by the British Army. Field Marshal: Two rows of one inch wide oak-leaf designed lace on the collar with crossed baton above the wreath in silver.
A French Line Infantry grenadier with red facings and a voltigeur with yellow facings (c.1808). A facing colour, also known as facings, is a common tailoring technique for European military uniforms where the visible inside lining of a standard military jacket, coat or tunic is of a different colour to that of the garment itself.