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26th October 2002	24th Officers' Uniforms? By Glenn Wade I am making a small diorama and would like to know if officers of the 24th or any other infantry unit in Zululand replaced their frocks with ORs tunics? Thanks Glenn
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26th October 2002	John Young Glenn, There is an example at Brecon of a jacket worn by Captain Alfred Godwin-Austen, 2nd Battalion, 24th (2nd Warwickshire) Regiment, is basically a five button o/r's frock, devoid of any lining. It is also devoid of any white piping. It does have the green collar tabs but nothing else, no cuff facing or trefoil knot. To the best of my memory it has General Service buttons. In the famous photograph of men of 'B' Company taken after the campaign, Brevet Major Gonville Bromhead is wearing a jacket of the same pattern. I have seen photographic evidence that officers from the 88th (Connaught Rangers) Regiment wore other-ranks five button serge frocks in the field also. John Young, Chairman, Anglo-Zulu War Research Society.
26th October 2002	Glenn Thanks for that John! Thanks also for the band photograph, very useful! Glenn