So I'm listing to the WFA presentation of an account from the RND in Belgium in 1914
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And it seems as if Winston Churchill was running around wearing the Active Service uniform of an Elder of Trinity House - which just boggles my poor little mind on so many levels.
That Trinity House should have an 'Active Service' uniform is one of those totally legitimate quirks that makes me smile, but to have one for their Elder Brethren is some quirk even by British standards.
Winnie being the one wearing it is about the least remarkable thing to me. As a life appointment it was a rig he could climb into whenever he needed a uniform and wasn't doing anything else that entitled him to one. If he's wearing a plain looking dark blue outfit with a peaked cap, like sitting next to FDR at Placentia Bay its likely his TH uniform. But be it so, of the question of when, by whom and and what occasion was such a uniform worn on active service almost asks itself? I'd have thought if it WAS Churchill that fact would have been added to the WSC lore.
I'm guessing some suitably badged up Battle Dress during WWII would have been the last, but I'd not rule out the Falklands, so perhaps a Woolly-Pully....
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And it seems as if Winston Churchill was running around wearing the Active Service uniform of an Elder of Trinity House - which just boggles my poor little mind on so many levels.
That Trinity House should have an 'Active Service' uniform is one of those totally legitimate quirks that makes me smile, but to have one for their Elder Brethren is some quirk even by British standards.
Winnie being the one wearing it is about the least remarkable thing to me. As a life appointment it was a rig he could climb into whenever he needed a uniform and wasn't doing anything else that entitled him to one. If he's wearing a plain looking dark blue outfit with a peaked cap, like sitting next to FDR at Placentia Bay its likely his TH uniform. But be it so, of the question of when, by whom and and what occasion was such a uniform worn on active service almost asks itself? I'd have thought if it WAS Churchill that fact would have been added to the WSC lore.
I'm guessing some suitably badged up Battle Dress during WWII would have been the last, but I'd not rule out the Falklands, so perhaps a Woolly-Pully....
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