British Style Uniforms

[The Gray Ghost]

After the Great War a lot of war material was sold off to other countries does anyone know of a non Empire country that had uniforms like the British?

[traveller]

The Polish and White Russians used them during the Wars in the 1920s

[Paul Hicks]

Abyssinian uniforms looked very much British.

[carlos marighela]

Mills style webbing was worn in Brazil and Spain in the 1920s. Peaked caps were a feature of the uniform in the former. Rest of the uniform won't match. If you are looking for ideas to use minis, then you will struggle, equipment and small arms tend to be much confined to the Empire and Dominions. In addition to the Poles and Russians, the Baltic states were the recipients of large scale largesse in terms of British uniforms and kit around the time of the RCW and early 1920s.

[paul c]

Ireland bought or was given some kit from Britain.

[Arlequín]

Some EPR units in the Spanish Civil War were issued with old British uniforms along with old Spanish and some French ones. I seriously doubt they managed to unite matching tunics and trousers though. A quantity of SMLE rifles was provided by the USSR too, along with a variety of other weapons left over from the RCW. I don't have any pics to hand to support this though. One member of the Republic's medical corps wore his old British OTC uniform too.

[former user]

how about the arabs?
didn't they receive british stuff too?

[carlos marighela]

how about the arabs?
didn't they receive british stuff too?

Which 'Arabs' do you mean? Iraq was under the British mandate until the 1930s. The only real local armed force of any note there until Iraq gained its sovereignty were the Assyrian Levies, who were under British (RAF) control.  If you fancy doing something else with chaps in shorts and slouch hats, they are an option. After gaining independence they continued to source weapons from Britain but also from Italy and elsewhere. Jordan was in a similar boat and the Transjordan Frontier Force doesn't bear much resemblance to typical British garb.

Egyptian uniforms for the period look more like a throwback to Kitchener at Omdurman than contemporary British ones.

The Saudis received British weapons but again I'm not sure that British troops would look terribly convincing as Saudis. Maybe the Artizan Sarifian regulars would be a better start point.