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U.S. Army knit clothing from 1911 to 1918


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Photo no. 03: This photo of Captain Benjamin Foulouis, commander of the 1st Aero Squadron during the Punitive Expedition is wearing a much darker turtleneck sweater that closely matches the example posted above by Trench Raider 1918.

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Photo no. 04: These groups of Guardsmen on the border in 1916 obviously have too much time on their hands. The soldier kneeling in the front row is wearing a non regulation lightweight turtleneck sweater.

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Mathzouille

Very nice post the US WW1 thumbsup.gif

 

Here you have a picture from my collection :

It's a US ww1 toilet troussers

 

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The item is as it was before and belougs from the same soldier.

 

This man put etiquets after the war :

 

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Mathieu.

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A couple months ago I ran into some photos of the leather palmed, canton flannel over gloves that were meant to be worn over both the sewn and ambidextrous wool gloves, as explained in post number 40.

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M1911 sweaters worn by men deployed to guard Dayton Ohio after the city sustained severe flooding. I believe circa 1912-1913.

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Great photo RC. That's an excellent example showing how the NCO chevrons were to be sewn onto both sleeves of the regulation wool sweater.

 

Thanks for posting.

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No problem, thanks for the interesting thread!

 

I got them thrown in with a pile or two of other WWI or pre-WWI stuff I bought about 25 years ago. Not many collectors cared about such items back then it seems, only the sweaters if at all.

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Again, wonderful work, but I have a personal connection to this.

 

My father was a small child in WW1. One of his wartime memories was that his school tried to teach them to knit by making them knit washcloths (which always sounded odd to me). However he said he was terrible at it and turned in this greasy, awful, ragged thing which, he was sure, would set the war back years if it was ever issued.

 

and so your line "the Junior Red Cross was established. Among other things it taught school children how to knit. The young knitters began by making simple square washcloths for the soldiers" was great fun to see.

 

Personally, I believed they dropped his washcloth behind German lines, which resulted in the Hun just giving up.

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