Black canadian uniform

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by NORTH-SHORE(CANADA)

hi,
here is you zoom they don't have coverhall

OK Jordan, what do you make of this photo? The uniforms on the guys in the back do look black, but is it shadow? Has this pic been 'enhanced'? It dates from the UK in 1942/43 at which point, if black battledress for the armoured corps was a thing initially, would have been dispensed with by then. Maybe those boys just need some corporal to order them to the unit laundry?

[NORTH-SHORE(CANADA)]

Originally Posted by Bruce Parker

OK Jordan, what do you make of this photo? The uniforms on the guys in the back do look black, but is it shadow? Has this pic been 'enhanced'? It dates from the UK in 1942/43 at which point, if black battledress for the armoured corps was a thing initially, would have been dispensed with by then. Maybe those boys just need some corporal to order them to the unit laundry?

Hi,
Here the link

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Royal_Ca...Armoured_Corps

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by NORTH-SHORE(CANADA)

Hi,
Here the link

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Royal_Ca...Armoured_Corps

I'm not saying it doesn't exist. I'm just saying I've seen very little evidence of it. I'd love to be proven wrong and discover that black battledress was in fact used in the armoured corps.

[Ed Storey]

That is an interesting blackened BD blouse and unfortunately we will never know for sure why it was dyed, although I suspect it was done after the war. For a short time the British manufactured, early in the war, blackened BD for armoured use which may explain the uniforms worn on the Ram tank; although coveralls, both in black and KD were popular for wear when mucking about AFVs.

[NORTH-SHORE(CANADA)]

hi,
we found on the sleeves we found a crown on the left size and on the oder size i dont know

[Bruce Parker (RIP)]

Originally Posted by NORTH-SHORE(CANADA)

hi,
we found on the sleeves we found a crown on the left size and on the oder size i dont know

Just wondering, if someone took a regular khaki battledress, removed the patches and died it to make some sort of sports jacket...it would explain things.

That's my best guess net seeing the actual item.

[Jordan Baker]

There is a few more pictures in the link below.

Some are clearly black coveralls and a couple could be black battledress. Unfortunately the pictures aren’t just quite clear enough.

https://www.silverhawkauthor.com/pos...rvice-ram-tank

Regardless it’s and interesting battledress blouse.