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  2. Royal Navy ranks, rates, and uniforms of the 18th and 19th ...

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    The first uniforms of the Royal Navy were issued to commissioned officers only and consisted of a blue dress uniform or 'suit', which featured 'boot cuffs'; based upon formal court wear of the time, and a 'frock', which was a simpler uniform that featured 'mariners cuffs' which were used to turn back the cuffs of the coat when strenuous or ...

  3. Batman (military) - Wikipedia

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    maintaining the officer's uniform and personal equipment as a valet; driving the officer's vehicle, sometimes under combat conditions; acting as the officer's bodyguard in combat; digging the officer's foxhole in combat, giving the officer time to direct his unit [3] other miscellaneous tasks the officer does not have time or inclination to do

  4. Military uniform - Wikipedia

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    A military uniform is a standardised dress worn by members of the armed forces and paramilitaries of various nations.. Military dress and styles have gone through significant changes over the centuries, from colourful and elaborate, ornamented clothing until the 19th century, to utilitarian camouflage uniforms for field and battle purposes from World War I (1914–1918) on.

  5. Provincial troops in the French and Indian Wars - Wikipedia

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    George Washington in the uniform of a colonel in the Virginia Regiment, a provincial regiment from the colony of Virginia. Provincial troops were military units raised by colonial governors and legislatures in British North America for extended operations during the French and Indian Wars. The provincial troops differed from the militia, in ...

  6. 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot - Wikipedia

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    Officers were responsible for providing (and paying for) their own uniforms; consequently, variable style and decoration was present, according to the officer's private means. [113] Equipment could consume a significant portion of an officer's pay; during the Napoleonic era, the 52nd's plain regimental sabre, for example, cost 4 guineas ...

  7. Royal Corps of Colonial Troops - Wikipedia

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    The ascari of Eritrea, Somalia and AOI wore the colonial uniform in white or khaki cloth with the aforementioned distinctive sashes, felt tarbush (a high red fez) with bow and frieze depending on the speciality. [12] White uniforms were initially used and later were relegated to parades with khaki being worn for other duties.

  8. Troupes coloniales - Wikipedia

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    Colonial Infantry bleu mecanicien field uniform. The European Colonial Infantry and Colonial Artillery regiments were, until 1914, uniformed in a similar style to their metropolitan counterparts [5] (although the former had yellow fringed epaulettes and medium blue trousers instead of the red epaulettes and red trousers of the line infantry). [6]

  9. Colonial American military history - Wikipedia

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    Colonial American military history is the military record of the Thirteen Colonies from their founding to the American Revolution in 1775. George Washington in 1772 as colonel of the Virginia Regiment; painting by Charles Willson Peale