More Military Uniforms to ID Please

[horseshoes]

The first has on the reverse 12/10/1941 Curacao

http://i51.tinypic.com/dxjl11.jpg

The second one doesn't have any clues but I thought it looks more like an RAF cap.

http://i56.tinypic.com/2uqmwzs.jpg

Thank you.

[mollykins]

1st one looks like the uniform my grandad had when he was in India at the end of ww2 . . .

[mollykins]

and the second is almost definately and RAF hat . . .

[horseshoes]

Can you see there's a white belt on the first one Molly, also a nice insignia buckle; unfortunately I can't see what's on it!

[horseshoes]

2nd Yes I agree. My Uncle Ray was in the RAF in Basra and it looks like his uniform. In fact it looks just like my Uncle Ray come to think of it. Now THAT would be funny.

[mollykins]

IDK, i'm also a bit confused about the long socks, maybe that was the uniform of a different battalion etc to my gradad but it'd make sense if it was another person who was in Inia as that's the kinda uniform they wore at that time.

[mike11111]

Forage caps were standard headgear in the RAF until the end of WW2. They mad a brief reappearance in the 80s. Although likely to be RAF, I believe similar head gear was worn by some elements of the Army.

[horseshoes]

Oh dear! Those tiny caps don't look very practical.

[ABerrant]

Those "socks" are puttees.

[ABerrant]

The cap is properly known as the Field Service Cap and the style first appeared in the British Army around mid 1800s as the "Glengarry" but generally disappeared by 1900.

In 1912 the khaki field service cap was selected as headgear for the newly formed Royal Flying Corps (which evolved into the RAF) and (re-)introduced to the British Army from 1937 where it was standard battledress headgear (wherever helmets were not required) until the beret was introduced in 1947.

[horseshoes]

So both the photos are of Army personnel?

[mike11111]

As it is in monochrome it is difficult to say. In Technicolour, of course, there would be no problem.