Uniforms of the British Army, 1914, from a series of postcards of uniforms of the combatants in the 1914 European War.
Guerre Européenne 1914Armée AnglaiseDragon guardsScots greysHussardGendarme de campagneLancierOfficier du génieGénéralLife guardsVolontaireVolontaire AustralienVolontaireGrenadier guardsScots guardsColdstream guardsColstream guards (pet. tenue)Kings Royal RiflesRifles brigradeScottish RiflesCameron highlandersHighlanders (officier)Royal Scots fusiliersCorps ExpéditionnaireInfanterie anglaiseTroupes de l'IndeRégiment de Cippayes West India (officier)Déposé J.C 8-9European War 1914 British Army Dragoon guardsScots GreysHussarMounted PolicemanLancerEngineering OfficerGeneralLife GuardsVolunteerAustralian VolunteerVolunteerGrenadier GuardScots GuardColdstream GuardColstream Guards (service dress)Kings Royal RiflesRifle BrigadeScottish RiflesCameron HighlanderHighlanders (Officer)Royal Scots FusiliersExpeditionary CorpsEnglish InfantryIndian troopSepoy Regiment West India (Officer)Filed J.C 8-9Reverse:J'espere bien que cette carte plâira à sa petite majesté, elle a été achetée à son intention . . .I hope that this card will appeal to his little majesty, it was purchased for him. . .
"As he passed from one 1914 man to another he dug his elbow into the C.O.'s ribs and exclaimed, 'You're a lucky fellow.' When it was over he said to the G.O.C., 'That's been a treat. That's the sort we've known for thirty years.' Orderly Room estimated that the Battalion still had 250 originals, mostly in the Transport, Drums, and Signals, and among the N.C.Os. Of the other originals, some 500 had been killed or wounded; some were detached; the balance had gone home sick and become scattered. With comparatively few exceptions the men are Regulars, Reservists, and Special Reserves."
Part of the entry for March 21, 1916 from the writings — diaries, letters, and memoirs — of Captain J.C. Dunn, Medical Officer of the Second Battalion His Majesty's Twenty-Third Foot, The Royal Welch Fusiliers and dozens of his comrades. That day the Corps Commander, Lieut.-General Haking inspected the men, and found many of them had come out in August 1914 — they were part of the old British Army, one of 100,000 men, that had been destroyed in the battles of 1914: the Allied retreat, the Race to the Sea, the Battle of Ypres.
The War the Infantry Knew 1914-1919 by Captain J.C. Dunn, page 185, copyright © The Royal Welch Fusiliers 1987, publisher: Abacus (Little, Brown and Company, UK), publication date: 1994
1916-03-21, 1916, March, Old Army, British Army
