AN OLD PRACTICE
COMFORTS FOR THE TROOPS The practice of providing comforts for British troops on service dates back to the Jacobite rebellion of 1745., according to an article contributed to the London Daily Telegraph by Reginald Hargreaves. At that time the commanding officer of the regiment supplied his. men with uniforms out of an allowance given by the State for the purpose, and- therefore the more skimpily the men were clothed the better it wds for the commanding officer. When troops from London were despatched in vile weather to meet the forces of the Young Pretender in 1745 an extra flannel waistcoat for each man Avas provided by a band of Quakers. London merchants started a subscription to supply ''a set of blank ets and palliase's for each ten, 30 watch coats (thick) greatcoats for men on sentn'- duty), to each battalion, and a pair of worsted gloves for each man." During the Crimean War scar;fs and knitted sleeveless waistcoats were given the name of "Cardigans" after Lady Cardigan, the wife of the General who led the charge of tlie Light Brigade at Balaclava.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 213, 16 September 1940, Page 8
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185AN OLD PRACTICE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 213, 16 September 1940, Page 8
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