Khaki drill
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Khaki drill (KD) is the British military term for a type of fabric and the military uniforms made from them.[1]
History
Khaki drill was worn as a combat uniform from 1900 to 1949 and was most often used in desert and tropical service. A variant, still referred to as khaki drill or KD, is worn by the
North Africa and the Mediterranean
In the early part of the
Far East
In the
Post Second World War
The khaki battledress was used until the late 1960s, and various uniform items in KD, JG and olive green (OG) remained on issue to soldiers serving in the Mediterranean, Middle East or tropics after the war. By the end of the 1940s, however, stocks were becoming depleted, and a new 1950-pattern tropical uniform was made available in both KD and JG. It was poorly designed, with an ill-fitting bush jacket in the much-maligned Aertex, and suspender buckles that dug into the hips when marching in full kit. Eventually the much more practical Gurkha regiments' JG shirt was copied, replacing the 1950-pattern bush jacket. All the same, troops still sought out the older, wartime, issues of the better KD, JG and OG kit.
Notes
- ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 770.
- ISBN 0-85368-984-9.
References
- Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India, from the letters of Major W. S. R. Hodson by G. Hodson (London) 1859.
- DPM: Disruptive Pattern Material by Hardy Blechman and Alex Newman, DPM Ltd. (2004) ISBN 0-9543404-0-X
- ISBN 0-9713244-0-9.
- Khaki: Uniforms of the CEF by Clive M. Law (Service Publications, 1998).
- Michael Dorosh, Clive M. Law Dressed to Kill: Canadian Army Uniforms in World War Two (Service Publications, Ottawa 2001). ISBN 1-894581-07-5
- Hodson-Pressinger, Selwyn "Khaki Uniform 1848–49: First Introduction by Lumsden and Hodson" Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research 82, No. 332 (2004): 341–47. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44231111
- Richard Ingrams, Martin Brayley (2000) Khaki Drill and Jungle Green: British Army Uniforms in the Mediterranean & Asia 1939–1945 Crowood Press (UK) ISBN 978-1-86126-360-5
External links
- Khaki Drill www.canadiansoldiers.com]
- Canadian forces Military Police Museum site, with many pictures