Red Coats in the Army

[Tomaldo]

Does anybody know in what year the British army stopped wearing red coats?  By this I mean the whole army, not the Rifles in green in the Peninsular.  Thanks in advance.

[Skids]

The Household regiments, the ones that guard Buckingham palace, still wear red coats.

[Johnmof]

It must have been sometime between 1879 and 1898. They were wearing red during the Zulu War, but with firearms becoming ever more accuarate and over longer distances they finally got the message that wearing the most conspicuous target colour in the spectrum wasn't the brightest thing to do. By the time they fought in the Sudan in 1898 and a year later in the Boer War they were wearing khaki. Not sure of the exact year.

[toby19]

tea its around the boar war in africa because the boar snipers were excellent shots and easily picked off the british in the brownish lanscape. so they began to change it around 1899ish. couldent tell you an exact date. also some colours were used in ww1 like the french in bright blue