According to Wiki.... "Brigadier Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden began the use of Khaki for British Army regiments serving under him in India in 1848. All British troops in India adopted khaki in 1885 having previously used white as the tropical colour. The Boers used khaki clothing as camouflage in the First Boer War; in the Second Boer War the British did as well." Martin Briscoe Fort William M&LFHS | Gwynedd FHS -----Original Message----- From: James Riding [mailto:james@seamus132.fsnet.co.uk] Sent: 14 July 2006 11:08 To: ENG-LAN-BOLTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ENG-LAN-BOLTON] british arny head wear 3k Hi List, 3k, the British army abandoned its scarlet uniform after the disatourous Zulu wars, and replaced it with Khaki uniforms for the Boer war. the headgear shown was used in that conflict, Khaki made soldiers less conspicuous blending with the landscape, and the possibility it might have been used in WW1 in the eastern Mediterranean, Egypt Mesopotamia and Palestine.