NO WOUND STRIPES
WAR OFFICE PRINCIPLE
(By Air Mail—From "The Posts" London Representative. 5
LONDON, November I
The War Office has decided, as a general principle, against the revival of the custom of wearing wound stripes or service chevrons on the sleeves of Army uniforms as was done in the last war.
The wound stripe was a short gold bar fixed vertically above the cuff of the left sleeve of the uniform. Service chevrons, were also worn oh the sleeve to show the number of years of active service overseas. A red chevron denoted a 1914 soldier who had served overseas; chevrons for subsequent years were blue. The chevrons were small versions of the n.c.o.'s stripes inverted.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 128, 26 November 1940, Page 6
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117NO WOUND STRIPES Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 128, 26 November 1940, Page 6
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