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Originally Posted by cbuehler
They are wearing the Suffolk Regt. cap badge, but of course we cannot know the exact version however. The tunics of the ORs are the standard scarlet with yellow cuffs and collars, but can't make out the shoulder titles.
Interesting that the officer is wearing the old first pattern OSD with stand collar at that time. I guess the territorial battalions were slow to change.
CB
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It wasn’t really a stand collar, but a fold over type closed at the neck with hooks. Coincidentally it was in the year that the photo was taken, 1912, that the modification to create an open, stepped collar with shirt and tie was formally approved. The original 1902 type had 5-buttons fastening the front and the 1912 modification reduced that to four.