{"id":10736,"date":"2015-02-28T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/?p=10736"},"modified":"2015-02-28T06:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T11:00:21","slug":"changes-in-uniforms-in-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/changes-in-uniforms-in-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes in Uniforms in 1915"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Sunday, February 28, 1915<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>In billets,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Armenti%C3%A8res\">Armenti\u00e8res<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: <em>\u201cPlatoons in trenches relieved, and were not replaced by battalion.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10644\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/28-Feb-15.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10644 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.royalmontrealregiment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/28-Feb-15-300x204.png\" alt=\"\u201cOfficers and Soldiers Alike at Front, Dress for More Comfort and Efficiency\u201d\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">\u201cOfficers and Soldiers Alike at Front, Dress for More Comfort and Efficiency\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0London, February 22 (Correspondence) \u2013 War has struck a blow at both military smartness and military picturesqueness.\u00a0 These two features, which distinguished European wars of the past, are now yielding to the practical.\u00a0 The British Tommy in the trenches, wearing goatskin coat, rubber boots and knitted cap, pulled down over the head, looks more like a Robinson Crusoe than a soldier.\u00a0 French Zouaves still wear baggy trousers, Moorish jacket and fez, but the cloth is coloured a greenish yellow like the British khaki.\u00a0 Belgians have changed their regulation little cap for a warm cap which looks as if made for a chauffeur.<\/p>\n<p>Among the changes undergone in the British field uniform is a Sam Brown belt made of webbing instead of the more conspicuous leather.\u00a0 The belt, designed a couple of generations ago by a British officer in India, supports sword, pistol and canteen and is suspended by a strap crossing the shoulder.\u00a0 In view of the short range in trench fighting, the British officer has been forced to do away with the minor elegance of a flannel collar and khaki coloured necktie.\u00a0 His full skirted overcoat early gave place to a short coat of the model of the seaman\u2019s pea jacket, which is found warmer than the old model besides being free from the annoyance of skirts.<\/p>\n<p>France is re-uniforming its troopers in the new tricolour cloth, a combination of the three colours of the national flag and of a bluish colour.\u00a0 It is used for the characteristic great coats of the men and for officers\u2019 jackets.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[i]<\/a><\/p>\n<pre>[1]\u00a0\u00a0 <em>War Diary, 14<sup>th<\/sup> Canadian Battalion, The Royal Montreal Regiment<\/em>, Feb 28, 1915.\u00a0 Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089695.jpg\">http:\/\/data2.collectionscanada.ca\/e\/e044\/e001089695.jpg<\/a><\/pre>\n<pre>[2]\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cMilitary Display Has All Been Cut Out,\u201d <em>The Montreal Daily Mail<\/em>, Montreal, Quebec, Monday, March 8, 1915, pg. 5, col. 2.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, February 28, 1915 In billets,\u00a0Armenti\u00e8res\u00a0\u00a0 The Battalion War Diarist wrote for this day: \u201cPlatoons in trenches relieved, and were not replaced by battalion.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [1] THIS DAY IN RMR HISTORY:\u00a0London,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-day-in-rmr-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmrmuseum.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}