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EFFECTS OF WARS ON SOLDIERS HATS
NATIONAL HISTORY
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The recent announcement that the busby had been approved as the future full-dress headgear for the gunners and sappers is a reminder that sartorial changes are an important feature in the records of all armies. The cynic, says Mr. Edward Paton in the "Naval and Military Record," is | On demand apt to assume that our military Credits, authorities aperid the greater part of their time in formulating decisions on buttons and tabs, but he forgets the reaction of the soldier to well-evolved changes in dress.
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There is always, too, an element of historical value in new modes. It is possible to read no small part of our national history in the evolution of a soldier's hat.
A Wire glance at a row of caps and hats from Carolian times to the pre- sent will call up instantly to the mind the story of our regiments, from Namur to Blenheim, from Louisburg to Fontenoy, Plassey to the Peninsula, from Waterloo to Sevastopol, and from Ladysmith to Ypres.
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In the cocked hat we can see the pikemen at Marston Moor, or the riflemtn at Oudenarde; in the tall conical, mitrelike hat, all colours and molloes, the "Grena- dier" of the '45; in the coalscuttle chaco, the "scum of Europe" at Barajos and Salamanca, or, with a longer peak and a higher front,
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When the recent order on the busby was issued, some thought this referred to the familiar "bearskin." But the busby is the much smaller square-shaped headdress which has for long been worn by the Royal Horse Artil- lery. It is more comfortable than the bearskin and less inclined to hang over the eyes like the shaggy hair of a Skye terrier. Pictures of old-time Coldstream- ers show the bearskin arched nicely over the wearer's brow, which curvilinear effect was pro- duced by steeping the hearskin in a teadish and clapping it on the head while the fur remained up- wards!
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The restoration of the shako as the full-dress hat for infantry of the line has been approved in principle, and will, no doubt, soon be in operation for officers and bandsman. If full-dress uniform the French suggested the short- were ever restored, the shako er "postman" chaco.. This "post- would then grace our parks on Sunday mornings, but this change will presumably be postponed till the week of two Thursdays.
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Stores, &c. the one which is shortly to be restored, though Dairy Farms Why Changes Are Made with modifications. The military Our wars have always brought tailor assures you that it will Der A. Wings about changes in hats. Some- slope somewhat towards the back, Lane, Crawfords
Mackintoshs times these were dictated by con- carry a curved peak, and be siderations of utility, as when the adorned with a red and white tuft Sinceres prevailing hats in the Peninsula for Royal regiments and blue or Wm. Powells battles were reported on as "ob. green for other regiments. Pro- jectionable as to form, unsteadily bably most
and sol- H.K. Amusements officers Jon the head; little use against diers welcome the change. The Hong Kong Constructions $1 s 66% 1 the weather or sword cuts." The blue helmet, which is also said to B. Ind. G.& Bonds result was a felt chaco only have been of German origin, is, in H.K. Gevt. Loans, 74% b Prem. seven inches high for men and a the opinion of most officers, too black beaver chaco for officers. suggestive of the police force. Sometimes association with Con- It may be said that since the tinental troops effected the days of the cocked-hat, the chaco change, as when the cocked hat, has been the typical full-dress time-honoured in one form or beaddress of the British infantry- another in our Army for over a man. In 1770 light companies did century, gave way to the cylindri- for a time wear a leathern skull- cal and lacquered chaco of 1800, cap, with a large upright peak, which was copied from the Aus- encircled by three light chains trian Service, or when the bell- and with a horse plume or tuft shaped chaco was limited from at the side. But this was by way the typical Hanoverian head-of a comic interlude, and in the gear; or again, after the Crimean matter of history the chaco or War, when our association with shako as it.
Dolores Del Rio and Walter Pidgeon in “The of the Moon,at the Queen's today and
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VAIN SEARCH IN THE SOUTHERN ATLANTIC
The owner of the small whaler, "Norvegia," which is now engaged in a search for whales in the Antarctic regions and is making scientific observations in the Southern Atlan- tic, states that this vessel, which left South Georgia on November 8, 1928, has visited Bouvet Island several times, the crew landing on the island. The "Norvegia" tried in vain to find Thompson Island and the Chimnies. The members of the expedition believe these islands to be non-existent.
The vessel subsequently crossed tho Falkland sector to South Shetland, and then sailed for Peter the First Island. This island was, it is stated, occupied on behalf of! Norway on January 2 last. The "Norvegia" has partly crossed the unknown region where the island of Peter the First is situated, which has been given the name of Roald Amundsen Sea, after the famous explorer.
She is now searching for the mysterious. Swains Island or Doug- herty Island, which is supposed to have been sighted several times, but which has not been traced since.
Great Britain recently renounced. her claim to Bouvet Laland in favour of Norway. Thompson Island was first reported by Captain Norris in 825 and was again sighted by Capland Fuller, an American sesler, In 1891 ane has landed on it, the island
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