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Are these for real?
First, I've never heard of the ATS wearing blue uniforms?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ORIGINAL-...sAAOSwvPdgW5Jj Second, Not like any Rutland HG badge I've ever seen, or in any of my books? https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RUTLAND-H...97.m4902.l9144 Both might be good, but if so, new to me. Terry |
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Photo from a 1944 newspaper article :
The ATS have their own Hospital Blue's row - attractive battle dress style blouses and skirts in blue flannel serge.The first of the uniforms are being worn at a Chestis Military Hospital. ;October 1944. Edit : I think the caption/story was a misprint and should have read Chester Military Hospital. .
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Also found this from IWM :
"BLOUSE, BATTLEDRESS, CONVALESCENTS' (HOSPITAL BLUE) (SP 1945): O/RS, ATS" Described as "'Hospital Blues' were worn by both male and female military personnel when recovering from wounds or illnesses sustatained in service. " But I am not sure that is accurate , why would they need/want to wear 'battledress' in a specific colour rather than their own uniform ? I could see the uniform being worn to distinguish staff working specifically in a hospital environment/capacity. .
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Quote:
https://www.britishbadgeforum.com/ar...dge-horseshoe/ .
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Quote:
https://www.qaranc.co.uk/Army-Hospit...niform-WW1.php And the 'uniform' introduced for ATS 'hospital' staff in 1944 ? .
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From memory theu used to wear Blue Uniforms at Shoeburyness Ranges as well but presumably not this pattern.
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All very interesting. Thanks all! I knew of blue being the hospital dress for WWI, but did not know about WW2. Seems surprising to me that they would make it a BD style rather than a pajama style.
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What puzzles me is that the IWM link states that they "were worn by both male and female military personnel " and there is also a "SKIRTS, HOSPITAL, A.T.S." but why ?
Why just for A.T.S. ? Were there no other "female military personnel" in the hospitals "recovering from wounds or illnesses" ? Also , as these 'uniforms' were introduced in 1944/1945 would there really have been sufficient numbers of A.T.S. patients/wounded in hospitals to justify the design/manufacture/cost of a new uniform specifically for them ? .
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Mike, You must know that the British Army does strange things! When I was released from Catterick Military Hospital in 1959 after a bout of Chicken Pox, the Doctor who released me handed me a package from their stores. They had destroyed all my “next to skin” clothing and in the package was all the necessaries including a white shirt and a bright red tie. I asked if I shouldn’t have a blue shirt and black tie, He said No, that is Army dress for wear on convalescence from an army hospital. You may well imagine the explosion I got at the guard room when I returned to RAF Catterick! D.J.
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I do remember that at the latter stage of WW2 and just after, in Aldershot, all patients of the two local military hospitals [Cambridge and Louise Margaret], those who were permitted leave to go into the town, did wear mid blue trousers. Their regimental/corps battledress blouse or tunic also worn This identified them as patients to both civilians and Military Police. As I recall, all nurses I saw, wore their standard uniforms
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