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RAF (left) and USAF officer style forage caps. Forage cap is the designation given to various types of military undress, fatigue or working headwear. These vary widely in form, according to country or period. The coloured peaked cap worn by the modern British Army for parade and other dress occasions is still officially designated as a forage ...
Landwehrmütze cap of the Prussian army. When the spiked Pickelhaube helmet was introduced during the 1840s, enlisted German troops were issued with peakless forage caps resembling the sailor cap. Officers, however, continued to wear the German-style peaked cap (Schirmmütze) to set themselves apart from the French, who wore the kepi peaked cap.
A bugle-horn within a crowned garter inscribed with the regiment's title was adopted for the buttons and was also worn as the badge on the men's Forage caps 1874–81. [20] [23] The regimental facings changed to white when the RSGLI became a battalion of the Gloucesters, and the uniform thereafter was the same as the Regulars. [46] [51]
The uniforms of the British Army currently exist in twelve categories ranging from ceremonial uniforms to combat dress (with full dress uniform and frock coats listed in addition). [1] Uniforms in the British Army are specific to the regiment (or corps) to which a soldier belongs. Full dress presents the most differentiation between units, and ...
The British soldiers went to war in August 1914 wearing the 1902 Pattern Service Dress tunic and trousers. This was a thick woollen tunic, dyed khaki.There were two breast pockets for personal items and the soldier's AB64 Pay Book, two smaller pockets for other items, and an internal pocket sewn under the right flap of the lower tunic where the First Field Dressing was kept.
In 1909 the khaki full dress was replaced by a bright blue "Indian Army pattern" tunic with black braiding for officers and a plainer blue uniform for other ranks resembling the modern No. 1 Dress of the British Army. Peaked "forage caps" with yellow bands were the normal headdress, although officers had a special dragoon style spiked helmet ...
A side cap is a military cap that can be folded flat when not being worn. It is also known as a garrison cap or flight cap in the United States, wedge cap in Canada, or field service cap in the United Kingdom. [1] In form the side cap is comparable to the glengarry, a folding version of the Scottish military bonnet. It has been associated with ...
Two officers and a sergeant of the 73rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot depicted wearing the shako in 1851. In this depiction the sergeant wears an officer's shako plate. In October 1843 the Duke of Wellington, who was Commander-in-Chief of the British Army, made alterations to the hat proposed by Albert.