auchonvillerssomme Posted 28 December , 2008 Share Posted 28 December , 2008 On a 'list of articles' equipment issued to a man in the RE, there is: Jacket, emergency. Trousers, emergency and Cap, emergency. What are these? Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krithia Posted 28 December , 2008 Share Posted 28 December , 2008 I don't know, but taking a guess maybe the simplified jacket, trousers and hat of some kind or possibly the waterproofed canvas suit you see drivers, despatch riders etc wearing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 28 December , 2008 Share Posted 28 December , 2008 Are the garments 'emergency' wear, or is it perhaps the issuing of them that is the emergency? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auchonvillerssomme Posted 28 December , 2008 Author Share Posted 28 December , 2008 I don't think it was an emergency issue because the scales of other clothing were as usual. mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 28 December , 2008 Share Posted 28 December , 2008 Was he in a tunneling company - rescue gear? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auchonvillerssomme Posted 28 December , 2008 Author Share Posted 28 December , 2008 I don't think so, I have asked the question about his company on another thread... 231st. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Sweeney Posted 29 December , 2008 Share Posted 29 December , 2008 Mick, Most references I've seen to Emergency uniform items have referred to Blue clothing. These were pattern sealed as "Emergency". The 1915 priced vocabulary was carrying such items as "Coat, Great Blue Emergency". I actually have one of these. Joe Sweeney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 29 December , 2008 Share Posted 29 December , 2008 This still sounds like conventional garments, albeit in blue, to be issued in emergency circumstances, rather than specialist clothing with protective qualities. What does 'emergency' refer to, Joe ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Sweeney Posted 29 December , 2008 Share Posted 29 December , 2008 I believe that this clothing is part of the clothing made-up because of shortages in Drab material and generally adhering to the same pattern as the Drab stuff. A lot of this stuff ended up on the issue scales for a lot the Native labor corps and were recorded in the winter scales of issue such as GRO 2799 which recorded issue of the Emergency Blue Great coats, Jackets of Blue corderoy and cloth and Trousers of blue corderoy and cloth etc.. Not sure why the RE man got them unless he was an interpretor. What is the date on the clothing issue form? Joe Sweeney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 29 December , 2008 Share Posted 29 December , 2008 Could he have been on some particularly mucky detail and drew the blue stuff as something to wear rather than his ordinary uniform? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auchonvillerssomme Posted 29 December , 2008 Author Share Posted 29 December , 2008 I believe that this clothing is part of the clothing made-up because of shortages in Drab material and generally adhering to the same pattern as the Drab stuff. A lot of this stuff ended up on the issue scales for a lot the Native labor corps and were recorded in the winter scales of issue such as GRO 2799 which recorded issue of the Emergency Blue Great coats, Jackets of Blue corderoy and cloth and Trousers of blue corderoy and cloth etc.. Not sure why the RE man got them unless he was an interpretor. What is the date on the clothing issue form? Joe Sweeney Date is 1915 http://content.ancestry.co.uk/Browse/view....ldsend&cr=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auchonvillerssomme Posted 29 December , 2008 Author Share Posted 29 December , 2008 list Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 29 December , 2008 Share Posted 29 December , 2008 So printed not typed so it wasn't just him drawing them but everybody else (at least in his part of the RE) as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Sweeney Posted 29 December , 2008 Share Posted 29 December , 2008 Mick, My guess is that this is just a second set of clothing (Blue emergency) issued to a recruit in the RE in 1915. Joe Sweeney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auchonvillerssomme Posted 30 December , 2008 Author Share Posted 30 December , 2008 I think you are right, would he, in other circumstances, been issued 2 tunics? Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Sweeney Posted 30 December , 2008 Share Posted 30 December , 2008 Mick, Normal pre-war practice was the issue of two jackets and trousers (not two Caps). This changed a bit in the war with technically those in the UK also receieving pre-war scales. However, once in an active theatre it beacame almost universal and very early that only one was issued. Joe Sweeney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auchonvillerssomme Posted 31 December , 2008 Author Share Posted 31 December , 2008 Thanks Joe, one of my resolutions this year will be to become more familiar with uniform. Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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