Hi all, I think we're generally familiar with the idea that discipline regarding uniforms in the desert was lax - as exemplified by the Two Types...
Today I was at a thrift store and found what it seems to be two real British Army 40 Pattern Tunics. I asked the owner where she found the uniform...
Hi, I am writing a thesis about coated military capes/ponchos/raincoats manufactured in 1940s-1950s. The thesis is about the degradation of the...
I submitted a request for service records of a relative to the National Archives, Frank Howard Watts, and included a death certificate, they have...
Hi All Hope you all had a nice Christmas and Good New Year's! Just wondering if someone can help identify the pattern of dress My grandad is...
I recently came across this photo going through my great nan's items. I do not know who it is so have no information and am struggling to identify...
My father James Arthur Kane enlisted Hounslow 3-11-37 for 6 years plus 6 years in reserve. Him at Bovington 1937: [ATTACH] Jim bottom right...
Hello all, I have been trying to put together ,for a while now, a far East British uniform. Infact, just like my great grandads. Could anyone...
Can anyone help me find out what the Battle & Dress Uniforms were for the 8th Royal Fusiliers(City of London) during WW2 please? Regards, Norman
Hi there! I've been searching for unit information concerning my great-grandfather. I am awaiting his service record from the MOD. I've pasted all...
This is a question about Monty's Irvin Jacket and his beret. Is the exact month or year known from what time he started to wear the Irvin Jacket....
Hello I have been looking closely at my old photos of my grandad trying to look for clues lol Is it my eyes or does he have some sort of pips on...
Hello all, I am putting together (slowly) a general representation of a soldier mid to late war - I have various bits, 1940pattern austerity BD,...
I've just been reading one of the BBC's People's War entries - and raised my eyebrows here: Cadets were transported to their destinations in...
Hello Guys, Another time I need your help on some patchs of british airborne. Thanks in advance for your help. Best regards. [ATTACH]...
1st (Bradford) Battalion West Riding Home Guard [ATTACH] 1st Dumbarton Home Guard Luss Detachment "Si Je Puis" [ATTACH] 5th London (Press)...
I have some photos of my father in 173 FA in Egypt and India, but he seems to have several types of headgear. What was standard issue for men in...
Official photo recorded southeast of Bayeux. The machine gunner wears a belt emblazoned with some unknown to me heraldry or symbology … what is...
Hope someone can help. I've recently come across a photograph of a distant relative in uniform but I can not identify what unit it is as the unit...
Hi guys. Can any uniform experts advise me if Officers, and particular Airborne Officers, wore ties with their Battle Dress? I can find pictures...
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