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Subject: World War 1 British Military Uniform - Officer
Category: Miscellaneous
Asked by: winifredpasley-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 28 Jun 2002 09:46 PDT
Expires: 28 Jun 2002 13:36 PDT
Question ID: 34563
For my novel, I need to be familiar with the normal everyday uniform
of a British major in an infantry regiment in 1918 - 1919.  Not fussy  
which regiment as long as it's not weird like kilts.  This would
include placement of medal ribbons and also cap & footwear. (Options?
Shoes-boots etc.) Would
really like picture(s) if possible. Links to pages with this specific
information would be fine - but not general WW1 pages.
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Subject: Re: World War 1 British Military Uniform - Officer
From: fugitive-ga on 28 Jun 2002 12:29 PDT
 
I'm not sure you're going to conveniently find what you're seeking
online. There is a tremendous amount of printed material and Reference
Books on this subject, but just scattered bits and pieces (so far)
online. For starters, check out libraries, searching their catalogs
using the Library of Congress subject heading:

	Great Britain - Army - Uniforms

If you do want to search online, use www.google.com, with the
following terms (including punctuation):

	"world war I" +reenacting

Though only a handful of sites come up, one excellent place to browse
is:

	World War I Reenactors Web Ring
	http://www.reenactor.net/WW1/ww1reenact_ring.html

as well as:

	Peter's Great War Reenacting Page
	http://reenact.homestead.com/

and the intriguing US based

	17th Lancers
	http://www.geocities.com/british17thlancers/frogandpeach.html

These reenactors would be a good resource for getting specifics about
uniforms.

In your searching you should also run across a number of citations to
relevant books. The most likely candidates are listed at:

	Books on World War I Uniforms:
	http://www.dropbears.com/b/broughsbooks/military/ww1_uniforms.htm

The British Army 1914-18 
(Men at Arms Series 81)  
by Robert Marrion, Don Fosten 

World War One : British Army (Brassey's History of Uniforms Series) 
by Stephen B. Bull, Tim Newark (Editor) 
Hardcover: 144 pages 
Brasseys, Inc.; ISBN: 1857532708; (April 1, 1999) 

	http://www.brasseysinc.com/Uniforms.htm

World War 1 Infantry : In Colour Photographs (Europa Militaria, 3) 
by Laurent Mirouze, Laurant Mirouze 
(Paperback - October 1999) 

The Brassey's title looks like a keeper! A search of Amazon.com turned
up a copy for about US$33.

Good luck and here's to hoping another Google Answers Researcher can
come up with a cogent online resource.

fugitive-ga

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