OLD REGULATION ON RED TUNIC UNIFORM

[seanus]

;D
Gidday,
I'm new to the forum but was very interested in this particular topic.
I love to research British Commonwealth uniforms from 1855 to the Second World War.
I'm trying to get hold of dress regs for this period and have been marginally successful.
I have the 1907 regs and a copy of the 1932 regs (without the Infantry).
Can anyone help with other regs?
Happy to pay for anything I can get.

 

[Michael Dorosh]

;D
Gidday,
I'm new to the forum but was very interested in this particular topic.
I love to research British Commonwealth uniforms from 1855 to the Second World War.
I'm trying to get hold of dress regs for this period and have been marginally successful.
I have the 1907 regs and a copy of the 1932 regs (without the Infantry).
Can anyone help with other regs?
Happy to pay for anything I can get.

There are no other official regs - Service Publications (http://www.servicepub.com) has reprinted the 1907 and 1932 regs as well as the 1943 War Dress Regulations and sells them in bound form. Other than that, you'd probably need to look at regimental archives for individual unit regs. Officially, army wide, there were no others that I'm aware of.

The archives in Ottawa will yield lots of correspondence and orders, though; I used a whole stack of such for my next book on Second World War officers' uniforms.

Books are good too and easier to synthesize than original dress regs, which don't always tell the whole story.

One good book you might like if you don't have it yet is Grant Tyler's book http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Drab_Serge_and_Khaki_Drill  Drab Serge and Khaki Drill which benefits from original research.

I'd also recommend my own book Dressed to Kill http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Dressed_to_Kill for Second World War stuff, and Clive Law's Khaki http://www.canadiansoldiers.com/mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Khaki_%28book%29

Both of the latter are available from Service Publications.

 

[Black Watch]

From a GGFG websbite

My point was that if jackets are being sold surplus with buttons in pairs, they are worthless to the FMR. The original poster said "there's a new surplus in Beloeil...They sale red tunic, but GGFG pattern..."

I stand to be corrected on the matter of the buttons, if you have a better source than I do?

I was worng, it's CGG patt.

 

[Michael Dorosh]

As far as I know, there are no other dress regs for that era. The next set came out in 1943, though a long letter from the Master General of the Ordnance did come out in 1939 as a form of dress regs for officers. I've researched my next book in part from that letter, and a fistful of other period documents - but no formal dress regs were laid down til the middle of the war. Canadian  Army Routine Orders do have a lot of info on dress though, as do Canadian Army (Overseas) Routine Orders. 

Anything specific you wanted to know?