"Tropical service hat" Topic
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| 42flanker | 23 Sep 2015 3:27 a.m. PST |
Could anyone point me to reasonably reliable contemporary images of tropical service hats worn in the later C18th by British troops either in India or the West Indies? Many thanks. |
| rmaker | 23 Sep 2015 8:32 a.m. PST |
One option was the issue shako (stovepipe or Belgic) with a white cover. Some of these were issued to the Hannoverian Benningsen Battalion. |
| 42flanker | 23 Sep 2015 8:47 a.m. PST |
Thanks. Hats are what I'm after. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 23 Sep 2015 2:13 p.m. PST |
I seem to recall one of the Osprey MAAs on the British Infantry of the Napoleonic Wars had a colour plate of "tropical" uniforms that included an officer with a tall, white, small-brimmed hat based on the "Mother Shipton" worn by the RA at the end of the 18th Century, and beginning of the 19th. From memory, it has a white cloth wound around the base of the brim with the loose ends providing a neck curtain. Is that the sort of thing? |
| 42flanker | 23 Sep 2015 2:58 p.m. PST |
That is indeed the sort of thing. What I am hoping to see are some contemporary images, rather than artists' impressions. I have seen, some time ago, one small reproduction of artillery in the WI with infantry in the back ground but the figures were quite generic. |
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