GREEN KHAKI
The khaki "now used for the British soldiers' battle dress is a crctes Between green and buff, with green tipping the scales slightly. The greeny tinge was introduced originally to blend with the French fields. Before that it was muddier. In fact, khaki began in mud. Credit for "discovering" khaki is usually given to Sir Harry Lums3cn„ an Anglo-Indian soldier of the Corps of Guides, a mixed regiment of Indian frontier troops. By 1846 this military heretic was ordering Ills men to rub their white cotton ■uniforms in the river mud to camau flage the men. From the Urda Jchak, meaning dust, the new uniforms were soon known by their pressnt name—khaki.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 181, 3 July 1940, Page 6
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114GREEN KHAKI Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 181, 3 July 1940, Page 6
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