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You gotta love the jodhpurs. Cutting-edge battledress...Not! Let's wear a light-coloured pair of pants in combat. Quartermaster, load the trucks with Omo, we are going into action. Have we enough clean jocks? Have we canvas tilts for the trucks in case it rains? Nah, who cares?! We look cool and that's all that matters.
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GttC
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The GoH under the reviewing stand was provided by the Local LDF unit (which became B Coy 23rd Bn, and later an element of 34RIB). The experience of those in the GoH is detailed in the book "Bullswool Batallions". The main advice given was not to look at the wheels of the trucks as they passed by. If you did, falling down followed soon after.
Interesting also to see the "Prams" being pushed.
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
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Originally posted by GoneToTheCanner View PostYou gotta love the jodhpurs. Cutting-edge battledress...Not! Let's wear a light-coloured pair of pants in combat. Quartermaster, load the trucks with Omo, we are going into action. Have we enough clean jocks? Have we canvas tilts for the trucks in case it rains? Nah, who cares?! We look cool and that's all that matters.
regards.cGttC
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Knowing the way we done things, They were possibly left over in stores from the British army times. Of all the shortages, uniforms was never one of them, and there were many irish based companies providing uniforms to the BA and others. There was a famous outfitters in limerick that were known for specialising in uniforms.
There was never, in ireland, a shortage of linen or wool.
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
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Jodhpurs, though, of all things. apart from the obvious thing of seperating ranks, taking light coloured pants out into combat smacks of the French in their light-blue in WW 1. I can just imagine a sniper having a field day picking off the guys in the white pants. It seems like the concept of a battle uniform hadn't reached the upper echelons of the Army, despite it being the fourth year of a global war.
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Originally posted by GoneToTheCanner View PostJodhpurs, though, of all things. apart from the obvious thing of seperating ranks, taking light coloured pants out into combat smacks of the French in their light-blue in WW 1. I can just imagine a sniper having a field day picking off the guys in the white pants. It seems like the concept of a battle uniform hadn't reached the upper echelons of the Army, despite it being the fourth year of a global war.
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GttC
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