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[sabrigade]

Major Gordon-Gray, an SAMR officer.

[sabrigade]

The miniature order, decoration and medals awarded and attributed to Major Gordon-Gray.

[sabrigade]

Chris,

Sorry, I only saw your post and questions now.

I was briefly in South Africa but I am travelling again, hence my "serialised" postings.

The cross belt and pouch with its very ornate badges were only issued to officers and are therefore rare. Thye are very well made and ornate.

Regards,

Will

[sabrigade]

The Permanent Force Police, part of the 4th SAMR.

[milhistry]

I have wondered about the SAMR stringed bugle collar badges for some time. I saw pictures of them before but have not come across a picture of any SAMR person actually wearing them on the uniform. Do you have any info about which orders of dress they were worn on? The pictures of uniforms I have seen are mostly officers wearing service dress in WW1 without any collar badges. Were they perhaps full dress only?

[sabrigade]

Officers had their "own" dress code in the sense that they used military tailors for their uniforms, etc.

I will post a picture soon of a group photograph which shows the variations of dress codes and headgear worn by them.

The collar badges are rare and appear to have been worn shortly before the disbandment of the 1 SAMR according to Colin Owen.

I have a photo album of a member of the SAMR and have never seen the collar badges being worn.

Edited by sabrigade, 22 February 2012 - 02:00 .

[sabrigade]

A slouch hat as for the type worn by members of the 4th SAMR when they served during and after the German South West Africa campaign.

They were used for policing tasks when the campaign ended.

[sabrigade]

A rare SAMR officers cap.

[sabrigade]

[milhistry]

sabrigade, on 21 February 2012 - 17:36 , said:

I will post a picture soon of a group photograph which shows the variations of dress codes and headgear worn by them.

The collar badges are rare and appear to have been worn shortly before the disbandment of the 1 SAMR according to Colin Owen.

I have a photo album of a member of the SAMR and have never seen the collar badges being worn.

Looking forward to the picture.  The 1923 Dress Regs. mention collar badges for 1st SAMR (the only Regt still in existence at the time) which seems to support the Owens dates.

[milhistry]

[milhistry]

Nice cap. Interestingly they were issued a blue forage cap with various covers (white, drab, green/grey) for wear on various occasions.

Extract from 1923 Dress Regs:

[milhistry]

Nice cap. Interestingly they were issued a blue forage cap with various covers (white, drab, green/grey) for wear on various occasions.

Extract from 1923 Dress Regs:

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