"Latvian army uniforms, 1940?" Topic

Hello,
I am doing a bit of researches about the Latvian army just before to the Soviet occupation (1940)… can anybody tell me what was the colour of their infantry uniforms? Thank you very much.

You might check the Osprey book on German Allies in the Baltic Region.

Olive drab (dark). I currently live in Latvia and the uniforms (their class A equivalents) are the same color as the pre-war uniforms. German 1917 stahlhelms as well.

Thank you!

There is a very good military museum in Riga (lodged in an old powder tower from part of the early modern fortifications), plus another very good one dealing with the unhappy history under Soviet, German and then Soviet occupation ending in 1991.

It is a very good museum. I drop by every few months (ot's free and it's near work). WWI, WWII, the Baltic Wars of Independence, the RCW, the anti-Soviet Forest Brothers of 1945-55. It's got great stuff.

According to Knotel which can be found in most libraries:

Post WW1 uniform remained the same until 1929 when alterations occured. Then remained virtually the same until 1940.
In 1929 The jacket was cut to tighter cut. Cuffs were changed but the uniform color remained 'a dark khaki color, leaning toward green'.
Branch colors for piping and hat band were changed in 1931. Artillery-blue, pioneer, signal, Cavalry-orange, infantry and armored troops -dark cherry red.

Kepis were altered but had piping and hat bands in branch color.

Armor troops wore all black uniform.

Thank you… do you have some informations about Estonian and Lithuanian unforms also? (I am planning to do them in 6mm, so general appearance and colour would be sufficient)