Red Khaki or Grey?

[Sean Clark]

At what point did the British switch to Kahki from Red...and when did they wear Grey?

[Colonel Kilgore]

Sean,

You might want to take a look at the Perry's online uniform guide

https://www.perry-miniatures.com/pages.php?page=sudan-uniform-guide

and pictures:

https://www.perry-miniatures.com/images/su/su_article_1_large.jpg

And the answer seems to be: 1885.

Unless of course it's 42.

[Sean Clark]

Great resource thanks Simon.

And 42 is always the answer.

[martin goddard]

Popular acceptance is that Ginnis was the last battle British troops fought in Red.
German WW1 propaganda depicted British troops as wearing bearskins and in bright red uniforms.
That was outrageous , as they were bayoneting babies at the time. Surely true.

[Smiley Miley 66]

Must admit never knew the answer to this one as it's not my favourite period of interest.
What you can learn of this forum.

[Leman (Andy)]

And my way round the conundrum is to use a naval landing party.

[Richard W]

Just be re-reading the old Military Modelling articles for 1980s centenary...

'Red' (or blue or green) uniforms used for Egyptian campaign 1882 but wore badly.  Troops coming from India wore 'Karkee' and weathered better.  However took time to create a successful khaki dye, so some troops wore grey during Gordon relief campaign - all Camel Corps and some of those operating from Suakin. The latter makes for an interesting mix as included both khaki and grey British troops, Indian and New South Walian.

Just converted old Essex figures (+PP reinforcements) to PITS, and Fuzzy-Wuzzies are bearing down on my gallant lads - must dash!

[Colonel Kilgore]

I have a stalled project, for which I was planning each British unit to be in a different coloured uniform.