SOLDIERS UNIFORM CHANGES
PROPOSALS FOR BRITISH ARMY.
LIGHTER EQUIPMENT. SOUGHT,
By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, June 7.
The Daily Telegraph says that farreaching reforms in British soldiers’ clothing and equipment, designed to lighten 0 the load carried and permit of freer movement, are being considered. The most startling recommendation is to replace tho present field service cap by a wide brimmed felt preferably smaller than the New Zealand or South African pattern, while steel helmets are to be stored and re-issued only if trench warfare again arises. The tight fitting jacket is condemned and it is proposed that it should be replaced by the Norfolk typo of jacket with box pleats at the back. There are no metal buttons or titles and the open necked khaki cricket shirt and trousers are replaced by knickerbockers of a modified plus fours type.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1932, Page 5
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