British uniforms: Red, Tan, Green? Please explain.

[Smokeyrone]

There was also "Homespun Grey", as it was described in a few books, during the Ashanti War (The Second?, Third?  The one with Evelyn Wood, Wooseley, and King "Coffee")

[warrenpeace]

Green was a common color for rifle armed jaegers, also skirmish troops, in the service of Britain's north German allies in the mid 18th Century.  That may have influenced the choice of uniform color for the 60th and 95th Rifles in the Napoleonic Wars.

Surely all the British troops in the 2nd Sudan War in the mid-1890's were also all in khaki... Does anybody know of other colors worn by British troops during that war?

[Smokeyrone]

All Khaki, all the time in the '90s!  (The 1890's!)

 

[Grekwood]

Depending on date, marines could be in yellow (pre William III) or more usually in red (although Royal Marine Artillery would be in blue)

yeah..sorry i meant during the victorian colonial period before that it was red and and originally yellow in the late 1600s/early 1700s

Green was a common color for rifle armed jaegers, also skirmish troops, in the service of Britain's north German allies in the mid 18th Century.  That may have influenced the choice of uniform color for the 60th and 95th Rifles in the Napoleonic Wars.

Surely all the British troops in the 2nd Sudan War in the mid-1890's were also all in khaki... Does anybody know of other colors worn by British troops during that war?

i'm not sure but i think some of the Rogers' Rangers may have been some of the first british riflemen to start wearing green during the French and Indian War in the us 1750s ... and were the beginings of the later american rifles (60th rifles) and 95th in the AWOI/Napoleonic wars.

[Smokeyrone]

Good stuff, Grekwood.

My Barzo and Marx "Roger's Rangers" (54mm plastic toy soldiers) are beloved.  My daughter and I used to have massive "Wargames" with them (using marbles to roll over the opponents)