ww1 other ranks service dress tunic and paperwork

[Peter Brydon]

Very pleased to have acquired the tunic and paperwork in the attached photos that belonged to Pte William Henry Burgess of Smallwood Cheshire who served in the 9th Welsh Regiment.

The tunic is in very good condition with just one small moth nip and there is an interesting button loose in one of the pockets which I wonder is a mourning button ?

P.B.

[leigh kitchen]

Marvelous - jealousy rears it's ugly head.
I'm not sure about the mourning button, they were, so I've read a case of black crepe being wrapped around the tunic button, but it could be.

[MH331]

Peter,

That is a very nice SD jacket with attribution. Yours looks to be of 1917/18 manufacture and is typically what finds its way onto the collectors market as they were normally issued for coming home so tend to be in good condition. The button is in fact a leather button that was used on the issued WW1 Leather Jerkin. The WW1 Pattern jerkin had removable buttons with split rings unlike its WW2 counterpart that had sewn plastic buttons.

A very nice find.

Regards

Mark

[High Wood]

Agreed, an excellent find, well done.

[Peter Brydon]

Thank you all for your kind comments

Peter

[grenadierguardsman]

That is nice.
Andy

[Peter Brydon]

Thanks Andy

Peter

[cymro]

As a collector of Welsh WW1 uniforms I am very envious of you having found this Peter. Bravo sir.

Regarding the mourning button, I have an RWF ORs tunic with thin black cloth shrunk around it. I'll dig it out tonight and post some pictures here...

Best

Jon

[Peter Brydon]

Thanks Jon.

Peter