I can only back up what you say about this style being Great War. I have one with provenance, plus have seen photographs moderately recently of WW1 lads wearing it. I will look out for the pics and post.
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“Where are my friends? They have not been many – not real friends – but it seems a fateful thing to be a friend of mine. Yet what is my loss compared with that of the parents, and wives? Even now my senses are numbed: I wonder will reality force itself on them soon.”
Major EEF Baker 25th November 1917
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