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Originally Posted by grey_green_acorn
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Thank you very much, yes, I was aware that armourers were to be seen in infantry regiment uniform, and the examples are welcome, but armourers also appear in the formal groups in their Corps uniform, no sash etc. I suppose that this is a period thing, which I have never pinned down. c. 1896 by the look of things.
However, one swallow does not a summer make: where are all the pioneers, signallers, shoemakers, tailors etc in staff caps in the groups?
Quite often c. 1900 [and especially in India] photographers produced battalion albums [I have one to RWF and one to Cheshires] naming the HQ staff members and appointments. The winter period ones [in scarlet] have nothing like sixteen men in the staff forage cap [and in that period, the armourer is very distinctive: no sash, and wearing Corps uniform].
Incidentally I believe the cap to be the finest piece of headgear ever issued, no wonder the owners clung on post 1902 until the caps fell to pieces!
Thank you again.