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The modern Royal Marines retain a number of distinctive uniform items. These include the green "Lovat" service dress, the dark blue parade dress worn with the white Wolsley pattern helmet (commonly referred to as a "pith helmet") or red & white peaked cap, the scarlet and blue mess dress for officers and non-commissioned officers [21] and the white hot-weather dress of the Band Service.
The full dress uniform for an officer cadet of the Royal Military College of Canada is similar to the universal full dress uniform of the Canadian Army, with minor variation. [16] The full dress uniform used by the Royal Military College has remained essentially the same since the institution's founding in 1876, although the pillbox hat has ...
The Royal Marines, also known as the Royal Marines Commandos, and officially as the Corps of Royal Marines, are the United Kingdom's amphibious special operations capable commando force, [8] one of the five fighting arms of the Royal Navy, [9] and provide a company strength unit to the Special Forces Support Group (SFSG). [10]
The scarlet full-dress tunics of the Royal Marine Light Infantry were abolished in 1923 when the two branches of the Corps were amalgamated and dark blue became the universal uniform colour for both ceremonial and ordinary occasions. [57] Scarlet for the Royal Marines now (2021) survives only in the mess uniform jackets of officers and senior ...
The Royal Marines Band Service is the only element of the Corps of Royal Marines to wear Number 1 Full Dress based on the Royal Marines Dress Uniform worn from 1922 to 1939. [9] The simpler Number 1A dress or "blues" are worn by other Royal Marine units on ceremonial duties.
There are many military and civilian variations of Red Sea rig: Original Navy: Short-sleeved white shirt (open neck), formal dress trousers and black cummerbund [6]; P&O Cruises & Princess Cruises officers: Short-sleeved white shirt (open neck) with shoulder boards, formal dress trousers and black cummerbund; however a black belt is being substituted for the cummerbund more often than not.
Canadian Sniper Sgt Harold Marshall wearing a Denison smock.. The Denison smock was a coverall jacket issued to Special Operations Executive (SOE) agents, the Parachute Regiment, the Glider Pilot Regiment, Air Landing Regiments, air observation post squadrons, Commando units, and other Commonwealth airborne units, to wear over their Battle Dress uniform during the Second World War, remaining ...
Dress blues may refer to: Uniforms of the British Army § No.1: Temperate ceremonial, British Army dress uniform; Uniforms of the Royal Marines § Number 1A Regimental Blues Dress - 'Blues' Army Service Uniform § Army Blue Service Uniform, of the United States Army; Uniforms of the United States Marine Corps § Blue Dress