Battledress

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U.S. Marines assigned to the 2nd Fleet Antiterrorism Security Team Company

Battledress is a general term for the military uniform worn into combat, as opposed to 'display' dress and formal uniforms worn at parades and functions. It may be either monochrome (often a shade of green or brown) or in military camouflage colours.

Battledress Media

• 20131114 WB N1026341 0004.jpg - Flickr - NZ Defence Force.jpg

  Military people of different nationalities wearing a variety of combat uniforms in 2013.

• Australian soldier firing an EF88 assault rifle in 2018.jpg

  An Australian soldier wearing the Australian Multicam Camouflage Uniform while firing his rifle

• "Some of the Princess Pats in front of guard tent", Montreal Daily Star, p.17, 26 September 1914 (18912708703).jpg

  Canadian soldiers in service dress during the First World War

• Canadian Contingent in Hong Kong - 1941.jpg

  A Canadian contingent in Hong Kong wearing Khaki Drill uniform

• Personnel with the Sherman tank "Bomb" of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment, which landed in France on D-Day and continued in action through to VE-Day. Zutphen, Netherlands, 8 June 1945.jpg

  Members of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment in service dress uniform, June 1945

• Defense.gov News Photo 960814-A-8186D-004.jpg

  Canadian soldiers marching in their green-coloured combat uniforms, 1996

• Canadian sniper Harold Marshall in a Denison smock

• French soldiers during the Battle of the Somme, 1916

• Lleopard.jpg

  Field jacket and trousers for the lizard pattern battle dress uniform. The camouflage pattern was introduced in 1947 and used to until the 1980s

• Exercise Wessex Storm 2020 MOD 45167356.jpg

  French soldiers in combat uniforms during Exercise wessex storm.

References

• Khaki: Uniforms of the CEF by Clive M. Law (Service Publications, 1998).

Other websites

• www.canadiansoldiers.com: extensive discussion of Canadian Army uniforms, insignia, and traditions from 1900 to 2000