France WW1 uniform on ebay

[Garth Thompson]

This horizon blue uniform, ebay # 350156946632 , is listed as a WW1 French NCOs uniform but the cut and style don't look like what I've usually seen pictured or illustrated as a WW1 uniform. What do you all think. I'm not a WW1 uniform collector so could be all wet on this one.

Garth

[Veteran]

Garth

It looks very much like a privately cut caporal's uniform. The two short oblique stripes on the sleeve were the war-time rank (short for a double chevron). Such uniforms were sometimes worn by men who were assigned to HQ when they had the money to have them taylored.

A "caporal" does not count as an NCO in the French rank system : he is an "homme du rang", a ranker.

Seems he had a number of war-time chevrons on the upper part of the sleeve. I don't know what the Lorraine Cross stands for.

Sorry I cannot be of better help.

Veteran

Edited February 5, 2009 by Veteran

[Paul R]

Seems he had a number of war-time chevrons on the upper part of the sleeve. I don't know what the Lorraine Cross stands for.

How much combat time did it take to get a war-time chevron?

[Bison]

Normally, one year for the first, and six months for each additional.

Here they are numerous... may be there is an explanation, but I do not know it.