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[Shahbahraz]

I've added another post to complete the story of 254th Indian Tank Brigade in Burma. I'm going to take a break from 'Jungle Green' for a little while, but I will go back to cover 255th Indian Tank Brigade and some other Burma stuff later:

http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2020/10/06/ ... n-1944-45/

Incidentally, just came across a really nice piece of IWM footage posted on LAF. https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/4095 showing Gloucesters, Gurkhas, a/c Honey etc in 1942 Sadly, there is no sound, but it's a really interesting piece. .

[Peeler]

RMD, very nice too. They look very Prussianish, was there much difference?

[RMD]

I've added another post to complete the story of 254th Indian Tank Brigade in Burma. I'm going to take a break from 'Jungle Green' for a little while, but I will go back to cover 255th Indian Tank Brigade and some other Burma stuff later:

http://www.jemimafawr.co.uk/2020/10/06/ ... n-1944-45/

Incidentally, just came across a really nice piece of IWM footage posted on LAF. https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/record/4095 showing Gloucesters, Gurkhas, a/c Honey etc in 1942 Sadly, there is no sound, but it's a really interesting piece. .

Oh was that you over on Lead Adventure? I've just answered:

Yes, the Glosters had SP 81mm mortars that were originally intended for the Chinese.

Yes, that's an Italian 65mm gun (they'd received 47mm guns in Burma and Singapore - captured from the Italians in North Africa - but that's the first 65mm gun I've heard of).

Yes, the Dingos belonged to 7th Armoured Brigade (2 RTR). Nice incidental shot of an India Pattern Wheeled Carrier acting as a road-block! In Caunter camo too... I wonder who it belonged to? I know that the Carrier Platoon of 7/10th Baluchs had wheeled carriers, but they were detached to 17th Div as div recce and then got tangled up in an ambush, along with the Glosters' Carrier Platoon, so it might be one of theirs.

[RMD]

RMD, very nice too. They look very Prussianish, was there much difference?

No, not a lot. The hat-lace for two regiments was yellow (Prussian hat-lace was always white) and the flags were very different, but that's about it. The grenadiers are recorded as wearing white pillow-cases over their grenadier caps at Leuthen in an effort to avoid confusion with Prussian grenadiers.

[grizzlymc]

Were they a slightly paler blue?

[Peeler]

Thank you muchly RMD. Steady with the blue there Grizz, you'll have the Count searching through his selection. But actually, were they a bit paler?

[grizzlymc]

According to the infallible Wikipedia, Prussian blue was synthesised in 1704. So the Swedes probably used indigo.

[RMD]

I've no idea if the Wurttembergers were using synthesised Prussian Blue or indigo. For the Swedes their cavalry dressed in a somewhat brighter 'medium' blue (something not mentioned by Pengel & Hurt in the 90s, damn them...).

[RMD]

Of course it's all academic, because as any fule kno, when you take into account fading, weathering and the scale-distance effect, all blue uniforms become Humbrol 25 over a Humbrol 104 base...

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

RMD, very nice too. They look very Prussianish, was there much difference?

The Wurttemburgers ran away faster.