"NW Frontier Uniforms" Topic

Check this out under Great Britain

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Google "second afghan war" and click images.

See this discussion:
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lots of links for colour plates and book suggestions.

Boris Mollo: The Indian Army (ISBN 1-85079-045-0).

Major R.M. Barnes: Military Uniforms of Britain & The Empire (much more than only India of course, but very interesting)

Lt.Gen. Sir George MacMunn – The Armies of India. First published in 1911, so perhaps free on the Internet.

An early Osprey is very good on that area.

There's a British Army On Campaign Osprey series that includes the NW Frontier. Also, British Army Equipment, Indian Infantry Regiments, Bengal Cavalry Regiments.

Mad Guru's Maiwand Day blog might also be of help, and certainly is inspiring link

Grelber

Here's a TMP thread from 2-1/2 years ago on this topic, including some visual reference pics:

TMP link

PS Thanks very much for the kind mention and link post, Grelber!

Khaki or scarlet could both be found on campaign, so you can paint what you fancy. British units had khaki drill summer clothing but often wore their scarlet serges in winter; so you can't really go wrong with either, or even a mix. Photographs show all sorts of combinations and variants being worn. Royal Artillery could be in blue or khaki, Gurkhas were still in rifle green, and the home service blue trousers were often worn with either khaki or scarlet jackets, especially in cold weather.

Queen Catherine, re: I think it'd look cool to have part of a unit all in one uniform, and another part in a different combo. It's your army and you should do what you want. But I can just imagine hundreds of regimental sergeant majors spinning in their graves at the thought.

As Nick says, they are your troops, so of course you should paint them however you see fit!

That being said, in reality each battalion -- which for all intents and purposes was the regiment in the field -- would dress the same way on a daily basis.

The historical exception that come to mind would be sub-units detached for ongoing lengths of time, such as a company assigned to garrison a supply depot or other post physically seperated from the rest of their battalion. This happened quite a lot during the Second Afghan War, due to the long lines of communication being spread out across very challenging terrain.