west coast Posted 29 December , 2007 Share Posted 29 December , 2007 what was the color of the tassell and cords on the bugles of infantry regts [ boer war and ww1 era] were all infantry regts the same. in this case i`m interested in the 'royal dublin fusiliers'. i am casting a set of metal figures and want to get the colors proper. cheers, mike . perth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 29 December , 2007 Share Posted 29 December , 2007 Hello Mike Green for Rifle regiments and red, blue and gold braided together for the rest. I can't swear that the light infantry didn't use green as well but in any case RDF would have had the mixed colours. That is for the British Regular Army. Territorials might possibly have had silver instead of gold, and I can't speak for the AIF, CEF etc. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west coast Posted 29 December , 2007 Author Share Posted 29 December , 2007 thanks for that ron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west coast Posted 29 December , 2007 Author Share Posted 29 December , 2007 ron, i`v just remembered , i have a photo of "bugler dunne" with his new bugle ,given to him by the queen. its a black and white photo , and it shows the tassell and cords all one color, they look like it could be ,green?, blue?, red?. definatly not mixed colors. sorry about that i should have mentioned it [maybe the photo`s wrong]. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 29 December , 2007 Share Posted 29 December , 2007 Mike I too have a photo of Bugler Dunn(e)'s bugle, in an old book of photos from 1900-1933. It appears to be in three colours - or at any rate, three shades of sepia! There is also a photo of Dunn with some of his comrades, but in that photo, it is not possible to say whether the colours were different. Is this the photo you have, with Dunn in the centre wearing a slouch hat with a feather in it, and eight other men? Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west coast Posted 30 December , 2007 Author Share Posted 30 December , 2007 ron, the photo i "have" is on my pc, its a side on pose ,head and shoulders. i got it on , the " canadian anglo-boer war museum", if you google this request scrool down to www.goldi productions etc. and go to bugles. i have seen the other pictures you mentioned. mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west coast Posted 31 December , 2007 Author Share Posted 31 December , 2007 ron, i could email the page to you if you wish to pm me your address. i havn`t mastered the art of image posting yet. mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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west coast Posted 31 December , 2007 Author Share Posted 31 December , 2007 oops! whatever happened there!! ron, you can see the bugle cords and tassell clearly , but what color are they. mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west coast Posted 31 December , 2007 Author Share Posted 31 December , 2007 this is the lad sitting on a sailors and his dads shoulders, his dad was in the same battn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muerrisch Posted 31 December , 2007 Share Posted 31 December , 2007 my understanding is that Royal regiments had yellow red and blue bugle cords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief_Chum Posted 1 January , 2008 Share Posted 1 January , 2008 Mid-green for non-Royal infantry regiments I believe. The Suffolk Regiment certainly wore mid-green... Taff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Sweeney Posted 2 January , 2008 Share Posted 2 January , 2008 Grumpy and Taff are correct. Per the "Priced Vocabulary of Stores for 1909 and 1915" two types were available: Strings, Bugle and Trumpet--worsted with two tassels Royal---red, blue and yellow All others Green Both were 8' 10" long. Joe Sweeney Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Clifton Posted 2 January , 2008 Share Posted 2 January , 2008 I had already been having second thoughts about my post no. 2 but Grumpy, Taff and Joe are all right and beat me to it! Anyway, RDF clearly indicates red, blue and gold tassels. Mike, I'm afraid I cannot scan my photo of the presentation bugle and I doubt it would come out clearly enough to show the colour contrast. Aew you sure that the double photo captioned "Bugler Dunne replies" is contemporary? I'm no photography expert but it looks like a modern re-enactment, rather than a 1900 original. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
west coast Posted 2 January , 2008 Author Share Posted 2 January , 2008 ron, i can`t give an opinion on the photograph as i`m very new to this "pastime" or hobby. as far as i can see 'bugler dunne replies' is the same lad as sitting on his dads shoulders at portsmouth. and the tassell on his bugle looks the same color. i`ll try the rdf.assoc and maybe they can put some light on it. incidentially did you have a look at that webpage i posted. [canadian anglo-boer war museum]. mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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