Re: Everyone's Blog Updates thread reminder
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2020 10:22 am
Great photos, RMD - I'm hoping to achieve something similar in 28mm when I get my Sikh platoons up and running for CoC - one in trousers for Op Compass, and one in shorts for Malaya '42. (Incidentally, I've never seen an Op name for Malaya - was there one?)
Interesting little story I picked up recently whilst researching Sikh troops. Back in the early 1970s, it became compulsory to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle, but Sikhs were exempted (which caused much muttering about preferential treatment). One of the reasons for the exemption was the number of ex-Indian Army officers - including several of general rank - who wrote to the Government stating that they had personally witnessed the turban (or dastaar, to give it its correct name) stopping spent bullets and shrapnel, that head injuries in Sikh units had been no worse than for troops wearing "battle bowlers", and that it was just as good as a crash helmet.
Interesting little story I picked up recently whilst researching Sikh troops. Back in the early 1970s, it became compulsory to wear a helmet when riding a motorcycle, but Sikhs were exempted (which caused much muttering about preferential treatment). One of the reasons for the exemption was the number of ex-Indian Army officers - including several of general rank - who wrote to the Government stating that they had personally witnessed the turban (or dastaar, to give it its correct name) stopping spent bullets and shrapnel, that head injuries in Sikh units had been no worse than for troops wearing "battle bowlers", and that it was just as good as a crash helmet.
