squirrel Posted 20 February , 2010 Share Posted 20 February , 2010 Wearing his shoulder titles on the collar as he had no shoulder straps to fit them to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 22 February , 2010 Share Posted 22 February , 2010 off to the smoke 2morrow for a couple of days, normal service will resume end of week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
At Home Dad Posted 22 February , 2010 Share Posted 22 February , 2010 Bairnsfather did it too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 5 March , 2010 Share Posted 5 March , 2010 Summary: Use of a collar badge of some sort [often a shoulder title in gilding metal] was surprisingly common in the war period. In no particular order, and not distinguishing between SD or 'Kitchener Blues', the following REGIMENTS have been noted above as having a collar badge for at least one of their battalions: E Surrey Essex NF Herts Cheshire Kings Liverpool Buffs DLI RF Inn. F Welsh KOYLI MG Guards Leicester Ox and Bucks Y&L W Yks Yorks 9th Suffolk and, of course, Pioneer battalions of almost all regiments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief_Chum Posted 17 March , 2010 Share Posted 17 March , 2010 Grump - you can add 9th (Service) Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment to your list. Most of them seem to have shoulder titles as collars like this, although a handful have shoulder straps on this pattern of Kitchener Blue with the titles on, and some have no titles at all... PS: If any of you have genuine examples of Kitchener Blue kit it would be great to see a fresh thread dedicated to it... . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief_Chum Posted 17 March , 2010 Share Posted 17 March , 2010 "Royal Fusiliers with collar bombs. Note the shorts, hose tops and fancy puttee winding! Small cloth patch at the top of the sleeve. Anyone like to have a go at the Battalion?" The 11th Battalion men often appear with bombs on their collars such as Cpl G Miles, MM seen here in 1917 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wainfleet Posted 18 March , 2010 Share Posted 18 March , 2010 If any of you have genuine examples of Kitchener Blue kit it would be great to see a fresh thread dedicated to it... Taff Have you seen this thread? http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/i...howtopic=140724 Regards, W. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cliff brown Posted 18 March , 2010 Share Posted 18 March , 2010 I have seen photos of members of 1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment TF wearing shoulder titles on the collar - as per the Herts Rgt example in post 3. The pix seem to be of men serving overseas with 1/1st btn during 1915. No instances later in the war, as far as I know. Cliff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulianB Posted 18 March , 2010 Share Posted 18 March , 2010 I wonder if Pte Bayliss (post 59) wears collar badges because that particular battalion, 15/King's, was home based !? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief_Chum Posted 19 March , 2010 Share Posted 19 March , 2010 Taff Have you seen this thread? http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/i...howtopic=140724 Regards, W. Hi Wainfleet, No I hadn't - but it is exactly what I had in mind! Shame about the lack of original kit (although I not surprised). One of the Khaki Chums owned the PoW jacket mentioned by Paul and still regrets parting with it. I wonder where it is now... Thanks for that. It's a fascinating subject and no one seems to have covered it in detail. CHeers, Taff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FROGSMILE Posted 17 October , 2010 Share Posted 17 October , 2010 4/2925 Pte Robin Joseph Wiles, 1/4th Hampshire Regiment. Photograph taken in Quetta. Great photo, but I do not think it is either Kitchener blues, or SD. It looks more like Blue Patrols. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7t2ndswinger Posted 17 October , 2010 Share Posted 17 October , 2010 <img src="http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/portraits/b/bruce-bairnsfather-200x316.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" /> Bairnsfather did it too Glad to see this post back at the top. The man has his cap badge facing the wrong way. (post No.56 Royal Warwickshire Regt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 18 October , 2010 Share Posted 18 October , 2010 Glad to see this post back at the top. The man has his cap badge facing the wrong way. (post No.56 Royal Warwickshire Regt) Curious, and not a reversed picture as his buttons still go the right way, and he appears to use the same wrong-way badge in some shots of him in his Officers gor'blimey cap. Perhaps a right-side collar badge being used as a cap badge, rather than a left-side one which would at least have faced the "correct" way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wainfleet Posted 29 July , 2011 Share Posted 29 July , 2011 I think that's likely to be a postwar photo. Looks to have just the one collar pleat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Upton Posted 29 July , 2011 Share Posted 29 July , 2011 I think that's likely to be a postwar photo. Looks to have just the one collar pleat. I think it's two Ted - on the chaps right shoulder you can even (just) see the two lines in the gap between the rifle patch and the top of the pocket where it continues down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wainfleet Posted 30 July , 2011 Share Posted 30 July , 2011 So you can. Well spotted that man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Verrico2009 Posted 14 August , 2011 Share Posted 14 August , 2011 E Surrey Essex NF Herts Cheshire Kings Liverpool Buffs DLI RF Inn. F Welsh KOYLI MG Guards Leicester Ox and Bucks Y&L W Yks Yorks 9th Suffolk and, of course, Pioneer battalions of almost all regiments. I think you can add the Queens (Royal West Surrey) to that list, Grumpy - I noticed that this photo (full version in the postcard thread) includes them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 29 February , 2012 Share Posted 29 February , 2012 and you can add Scottish 'Orse to the list wearing collar badges, see: http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=176570&st=0&p=1718339&hl=+scottish%20+horse&fromsearch=1entry1718339 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wainfleet Posted 5 January , 2013 Share Posted 5 January , 2013 Territorial battalion Essex Regiment. Cannot make out the number. I think that's a postwar image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wainfleet Posted 5 January , 2013 Share Posted 5 January , 2013 That's probably true of the regular army, but some TA units carried on wearing their wartime patches for quite some time, even after WW2 in some cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief_Chum Posted 5 January , 2013 Share Posted 5 January , 2013 "...some TA units carried on wearing their wartime patches for quite some time" I was talking to Ian Hook at the Essex Regiment Museum about this just before Christmas. He said that the Essex TF continued to wear their Great War 54 Div cloth insignia post war. Nice to see an example of the patches being worn post war. Cheers, Taff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 28 May , 2013 Share Posted 28 May , 2013 looks like we need to add Cameronians/SR TF battalions to the list, see http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=184958#entry1910867 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark holden Posted 28 May , 2013 Share Posted 28 May , 2013 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars. Two pleats under collar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark holden Posted 28 May , 2013 Share Posted 28 May , 2013 41478 Sgt Carmichael 18 HLI(Glasgow Yeomanry). Two pleats under collar. 5th Kings Liverpool an unusual collar badge! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark holden Posted 28 May , 2013 Share Posted 28 May , 2013 Royal Munster Fusiliers. Possibly Army of occupation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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