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45-573: This was led by Colonel Thomas Price in the Second Boer War. The 5th contingent enrolled for the Second Boer War in February 1901, leaving for South Africa in mid-February. The regiment was mobilised at Pretoria between 24 March and 4 April 1901. It saw considerable action during the Second Boer War when it was used to combat the guerilla warfare tactics of the Boers . Leslie Cecil Maygar

90-555: A commission as an officer in its small permanent force. He subsequently formed the Victorian Mounted Rifles , an early light horse unit that helped establish the concept within the Australian military, which was raised from volunteers recruited from men based in rural Victoria. In establishing his new unit, Price obtained permission to dress them in khaki, instead of the red or blue uniforms that had been common at

135-469: A hat KFF, or hat khaki fur felt) is worn as the standard ceremonial headress for all members of the Army, except those belonging to units or corps that have an official headress such as a beret, and is treated with the utmost care and respect. It is also worn in some units as general duty dress. When worn for ceremonial purposes, the "Grade 1" Slouch hat is worn with a seven-band puggaree , six of which represent

180-530: A style between a French type bush hat of the First Indochina War and an Australian type bush hat with a snap on the brim to pin one side up that was widely bought and unofficially worn by American troops in Vietnam. The local tailors usually used green fatigue cloth or leopard skin pattern military camouflage from old parachutes. The hat often had a cloth arc emblazoned with the word VIET-NAM on

225-540: A summary Court Martial , he sentenced them to death. This sentence was commuted by General Kitchener who was in charge of all allied forces. The reduced sentences were debated in both the Australian and British Parliaments and were eventually commuted. When the 5th VMR departed from South Africa, Lord Kitchener sent the CO this telegram: "11 March 1902, Cape Town, Please Convey to your Australians my warm appreciation of their gallant and arduous service in this country. In

270-670: A variant of the bush hat in navy blue, normally in rural areas. Considered obsolete as main dress, it is now rarely worn instead of the standard peaked cap or recently (2021) introduced baseball cap . During the North-West Rebellion of 1885 both non-uniformed and uniformed regiments in the Alberta Field Force, plus occasionally the North-West Mounted Police , wore slouch hats. Slouch hats were commonly worn by Canadian mounted regiments in

315-628: Is now on display in Collins Barracks A few state police forces in India use slouch hats, or did so in the past. The Armed Reserve wing of the Kerala Police wore slouch hats up to the 1980s, but today the slouch hat is only worn by Recruit Trainee Police Constables (RTPC) during their training. The Armed Reserve policemen of Kerala Police now wear a blue peaked cap. The Karnataka Police continues to use slouch hats for its members in

360-657: The American Civil War (1861–65) the headgear was common among both Confederate and Union troops in the Western Theater , although not always with its brim turned up at the side. During the Spanish–American War , as commander of the Rough Riders , Colonel Theodore Roosevelt became known for wearing a slouch hat. The name "slouch hat" refers to the fact that one side droops down as opposed to

405-778: The Australian Air Force Cadets and Australian Army Cadets both wear a slouch hat, referred to as it is by their parent branch: the AAFC calling it the HFFK, and the AAC calling it the KFF. The NZ version of the slouch hat currently worn by the various corps and regiments of the New Zealand Army is known as the "Mounted Rifles Hat". The puggaree is always khaki-green-khaki, the original Mounted Rifles puggaree, with only

450-799: The Royal Australian Air Force wears the HKFF with a dark blue or "Air Force Blue" Puggaree, as a Non Ceremonial head dress for the RAAF; the Royal Australian Navy is also known to wear the hat when wearing camouflage and other uniforms, and has the same features as the RAAF's HKFF. Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (1RAR) wear a jungle green coloured puggaree with no colour patch, which dates back to traditions when serving in Malaya. Staff Cadets at

495-576: The Royal Military College, Duntroon also wear a darker pugaree, however it contains eight pleats. The eighth pleat signifies the graduation of the first international cadet through the Royal Military College who hailed from New Zealand. They also wear the chin strap of the hat the opposite way around from that of the rest of the Army, as the first commander of the 1st Australian Imperial Force, William Throsby Bridges ,

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540-884: The Second Boer War and occasionally by the Royal Canadian Regiment. Throughout the late Victorian era and early 1900s slouch hats were widely worn by the Canadian military, from the Yukon to South Africa. Naval and air force personnel of the Canadian Forces serving overseas during the Gulf War were issued with white cotton duck hats. The Slouch hat was used extensively during the 1916 Rising and Irish War of Independence most famously Padraig Pearse who wore one during The Easter Rising, which

585-610: The United States , the Confederate States , Germany and many others. Australia and New Zealand have had various models of slouch hat as standard issue headwear since the late Victorian period. Today it is worn by military personnel from a number of countries, although it is primarily associated with Australia, where it is considered to be a national symbol. The distinctive Australian slouch hat, sometimes called an "Australian bush hat" or "digger hat", has one side of

630-584: The Victorian Mounted Rifles , and was instrumental in establishing the concept of light horse units within the Australian Army. In 1900, he led a Victorian contingent during the Second Boer War , and was the only Australian officer during that war to command a force of British regulars. He remained in the Australian military after the war, serving in Queensland until 1904 when he was medically discharged. He retired to Victoria again and died in 1911 at

675-700: The 1960s included a slouch hat, popularly known as "Banga Banga", although the term "banga-banga" also refers to the lower rank's fez. Some units of the British Army sent to South Africa during the Boer War adopted the slouch hat, particularly members of the Imperial Yeomanry, and retained its use on their return to the UK after the war. Though the Service Cap became standard after the formation of

720-574: The Corsican hat in the periods 1803–06 and 1811–36. A shortage of cork helmets led to the widespread use of the slouch hat amongst British Empire forces during the Second Boer War , where it was used by units including the City Imperial Volunteers (CIV), Imperial Yeomanry , and King Edward's Horse . An 1884 painting displayed in the regimental museum of the pipe band of 1st Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders shows

765-651: The Double Terai has a double thick crown and brim for additional sun protection and durability. The slouch hat has been known in the US military at least since the American Civil War, being fairly common among officers. The standard headgear for US soldiers in the Vietnam War in the 1960s was a fatigue baseball or field cap that offered little protection from the sun. Local tailors made a slouch hat in

810-586: The Royal Navy during World War I, while another reached the rank of brigadier in the British Army. Slouch hat A slouch hat is a wide-brimmed felt or cloth hat most commonly worn as part of a military uniform , often, although not always, with a chinstrap. It has been worn by military personnel from many different nations including Australia , Ireland , the United Kingdom , Canada , India , New Zealand , Southern Rhodesia , France ,

855-722: The Territorial Force in 1908, the Royal East Kent Mounted Rifles used them for ceremonial purposes until around 1910. During World War II, British soldiers serving in the jungles of Burma often wore the slouch hat. Post war, the Gurkhas are the only unit which retained the use of a version of the slouch hat. The primary version is the Terai hat , after the Terai region in Nepal. A version called

900-766: The age of 68. Price was born in Hobart, Tasmania , on 21 October 1842. He was the fourth son of John Price , a police magistrate and convict superintendent, who was the fourth son of Cornish Australian Sir Rose Price, 1st Baronet of the Price Baronets . He received some basic education in Hobart and from 1854 was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne . In December 1859, he entered the East India Military College , in Addiscombe , England, and

945-489: The badge denoting the wearer's Regimental affiliation. Dating from the early 1900s, it was reintroduced for wear by Queen Alexandra's Mounted Rifles in the mid-1990s, but in 2000 its issue was broadened to all Corps for wear with working dress (influenced by such use by QAMR) as well as with service dress. As an alternative to the typical NZ army "lemon squeezer" , the NZ Mounted Rifles Hat is worn on all but

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990-592: The brim turned up or pinned to the side of the hat with a Rising Sun Badge in order to allow a rifle to be slung over the shoulder. The New Zealand Mounted Rifles wore a similar headdress but with the New Zealand military badge attached to the front of the cloth band (puggaree) wound around the base of the hat's crown. In the United States it was also called the Kossuth hat, after Lajos Kossuth . During

1035-453: The brim. The US 1st Air Commando Group members officially adopted the green slouch hat on 22 May 1964 as their distinctive and practical headgear. In 1972 the US Army authorized female drill sergeants to wear a bush hat based on the Australian design as their distinctive headgear. This was originally beige, but has been green since 1983. Prior to 1972, when the new ' greens ' uniform

1080-590: The colonial armed force of Imperial Germany, as an alternative to the pith helmet , especially in South West Africa. Different coloured puggarees were worn by the Germans in South West Africa , German East Africa , German West Africa ( Togo and Cameroon ), German New Guinea and China. The hat had its brim pinned up on the right side with a cockade in the national colors and was worn with

1125-885: The conflict, the only Australian commander to do so during the war. After his return from South Africa, he was briefly assigned the position of State commandant of the Victorian forces. This was the second highest position available to an officer at the time in Australia. He held the position between March and July 1902, before relinquishing the position to assume the same role in Queensland . He served there until he retired, medically unfit, in August 1904. Following his discharge, Price retired to Warrnambool, Victoria , his health having been affected by his services in India and South Africa. He lived there until his death on 3 July 1911. He

1170-548: The first Gurkha regiment to adopt the slouch hat when they were issued with the Australian variant in 1901. The Gurkha terai hat is created by fusing two hats into one to make the hat more rigid and is worn at an angle, tilted to the right. The Chindits and other units of Field Marshal William Slim 's British Fourteenth Army , who fought against the Japanese in the Far East during World War II, also became associated with

1215-573: The hat as part of their uniform after their commanding officer, Thomas Price , had seen them worn by police in Burma. On 22 December 1890, the military commanders of the then separate Australian Colonies prior to the Federation of Australia met to discuss the introduction of the khaki uniform throughout Australia. They agreed that all Australian Forces with the exception of the Artillery would wear

1260-559: The home uniform as well. German colonial police units in South West Africa wore a khaki slouch hat with a small national cockade on the front and the right side pinned up by a metal Imperial crown device. It became associated with the Australian military around the end of the 19th century, and since World War I it has been manufactured in Australia for the Australian Army by companies such as Akubra , Mountcastle & Sons and Bardsley Hats. The Australian military still wear

1305-546: The lower ranks of the police ( Constables and Head Constables ), with the colours of the police unit embroidered on the turned-up brim. The number of the individual officer is also fixed onto the side of the brim. The Rajasthan Provincial Constabulary : the armed branch of the Rajasthan Police, also uses the slouch hat pinned up to the side, as the standard service and ceremonial headgear for all its Constables and Head Constables. The uniform of Nigerian soldiers in

1350-582: The most important occasions, where the lemon squeezer takes precedence. The slouch hat predates the introduction of the lemon squeezer hat (which did not appear until after the Boer War) and is worn brim down. Historic photographs indicate the brim to have been worn up in the Australian style on occasion. The term 'bush hat' is also associated with New Zealand culture such as the Bushman, Southern man and man alone stereotypes. The New Zealand Police wear

1395-724: The name of the Army in South Africa, I wish them good luck and God speed." Thomas Price (soldier) Thomas Caradoc Rose Price CB (21 October 1842 – 3 July 1911), often known as Colonel Tom Price , was an Australian soldier, and acting commandant of the Commonwealth Military Forces in Victoria in 1902. Joining the British Indian Army in his early years, he served 20 years in India before returning to Australia. In 1885, he raised

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1440-563: The other which is pinned against the side of the crown. This style of hat has been worn for many hundreds of years, especially during the English Civil War during the 17th century when it became associated with the forces of King Charles I , the Cavaliers , but it was also fashionable for the aristocracy throughout Europe during that time until it developed into the cocked hat with two ( bicorn ) or three ( tricorn ) points. It

1485-793: The slouch hat (also known as the bush hat in the British Army). The slouch hat was also used by colonial units of the British Empire , including the Royal West African Frontier Force , the Canadian Yukon Field Force , Canadian Pacific Railway Militia, the Kenya Regiment and troops from Rhodesia . The slouch hat was first worn by military forces in Australia in 1885 when the newly created Victorian Mounted Rifles adopted

1530-512: The slouch hat with a Unit Colour Patch to identify their unit, and it has become a national symbol in Australia. The slouch hat or Terai hat is also associated with the Koninklijk Nederlands Indisch Leger ( Dutch East Indies Army ). It is worn by Gurkha regiments of the British Army and Indian Army (formerly the British Indian Army ), but no longer worn on active service. The 2nd Gurkha Rifles became

1575-403: The slouch hat. It was to be looped up on one side—Victoria and Tasmania on the right and the other colonies (later states) on the left. This was done so that rifles could be held at the slope without damaging the brim. After Federation, the slouch hat became standard Australian Army headgear in 1903 and since then it has developed into an important national symbol. The slouch hat (also known as

1620-473: The states of Australia while the seventh represents the territories of Australia. A Unit Colour Patch is worn on the right of puggaree, while a Corps or Regiment Hat badge is placed to its front and the General Service Badge (The Rising Sun) worn on the left brim which is folded up and clipped into place. The slouch hat worn by the Army is one of its trademarks, but it is not theirs alone:

1665-492: The strikers if necessary later led to him being criticised by Premier Duncan Gillies and appearing before a court of inquiry. In the end, his actions were upheld and ultimately the strike was resolved peacefully. In 1900, Price saw action in South Africa in the Second Boer War in command of the second Victorian contingent and was mentioned in despatches . He also commanded a force that included British regulars during

1710-423: The time. He also instituted the slouch hat as an item of their uniform, which subsequently became a defining icon of the modern Australian Army . In 1888, he briefly took command of the Victorian Rangers, commanding them until 1889. During a civil disturbance in Melbourne in 1890 when maritime workers went on strike, Price's unit was called out to aid civilian police. The orders that he gave to his men to fire on

1755-428: The unit in service dress, crossing the veldt in Zululand, wearing khaki slouch hats. After the war many armies rejected the once-popular headwear (as the British Army did in 1905), although it came back into fashion briefly during World War II during the Burma campaign and amongst troops serving in India and Southeast Asia at this time. The slouch hat in gray felt was worn by the Schutztruppe (protection force),

1800-442: Was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallant acts during the Second Boer War whilst enlisted in 5 VMR. The Regiment came into controversy after an attack on their camp at Wilmansrust. The 5th saw heavy casualties with the Regimental surgeon, and 18 NCOs and men killed; five officers and 36 NCOs and men were wounded. The Officer in Charge of the column, Major-General Sir Stuart Brownlow Beatson, K.C.B., K.C.S.I., K.C.V.O. (1854–1914),

1845-441: Was buried with military honours in the Melbourne General Cemetery . He married twice, firstly in 1874 to Mary, daughter of Thomas Baillie, who died in 1899, and secondly in 1902 to Emeline Shadforth, daughter of the Robert Reid . Emeline survived him with three sons; Price's daughter from his first marriage also survived him. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1900. One of his sons died on active service with

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1890-435: Was commissioned in 1861 into the Madras Infantry . Price undertook twenty years of service in India with several different regiments, during which time he was also seconded as a police superintendent. He retired from the army in 1883 with the rank of lieutenant colonel and returned to Australia, securing a plot of farm land around Heidelberg, Victoria . In 1885, he was appointed to the Victorian Military Forces, taking up

1935-434: Was found wearing his slouch hat back to front when he was fatally wounded at Gallipoli . Some units of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps such as cavalry and light horse regiments wear emu plumes behind the Rising Sun badge. This is a reference to a practice dating from World War 1, where Light Horsemen would chase down emus and steal their feathers to mount in their hat as a mark of their riding skill. Members of

1980-447: Was introduced into Australia around 1885, although it traces its military use back to Austrian skirmishers. The modern slouch hat is derived from the black "Corsican hat" (Korsehut) – historically used in the Austrian army during the Napoleonic Wars. The headwear saw primary use by 15 battalions of Austrian Jägers (skirmishers) and it featured an upturned brim, leather chinstrap and feather plume. The regular infantry also saw limited use of

2025-430: Was not satisfied with the actions of the Victorian Mounted Rifles and was quoted as saying: "I tell you what I think. The Australians are a damned fat, round shouldered, useless crowd of wasters . . . In my opinion they are a lot of white-livered curs . . . You can add dogs too." He charged three men—Troopers James Steele (1142), Arthur Richards (1272) and Herbert Henry Parry (1335).—of the VMR for inciting mutiny and after

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