U.S. Army knit clothing from 1911 to 1918

[world war I nerd]

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.

[world war I nerd]

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.

[world war I nerd]

Photo no. 05: Close up of the much lighter olive drab turtleneck sweater.

[New Romantic]

Brian, your email you just sent reminded me to post this unusual knit cap currently at Bay State Militaria.

[New Romantic]

This is a photo currently on eBay with a soldier wearing the 1911 sweater.

[New Romantic]

Detail of sweater

[world war I nerd]

Very cool photo Frankie. Thanks for posting.

[Mathzouille]

Very nice post the US WW1

 

Here you have a picture from my collection :

It's a US ww1 toilet troussers

 

 

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

 

This man put etiquets after the war :

 

 

Friendly

 

Mathieu.

[Pat Holscher]

Interesting thread.

 

Here's a SMH tread on the 1911 sweater. I've posted a link to this thread in it.SMH thread on 1911 sweater

[USARV72]

 

 

Found this copy of a 1918 Sears catalog showing some knit clothing......

[world war I nerd]

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.

[RustyCanteen]

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

 

[world war I nerd]

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.

[RustyCanteen]

Hi WWI Nerd!

 

 

Thanks, I hope to post up some more photos soon in other topics.

 

RC

[evets]

Here's pics of a balaclava/toque and wristlets I've had in my collection for around 25 years.

 

[world war I nerd]

Thanks for adding to the thread evets. It's nice to see a pair of two thumb hole wristlets.

[evets]

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.

[jgawne]

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.

[gunnarthefeisty]

On 4/14/2009 at 8:19 AM, Dragoon said:

Firstly thanks World War One Nerd for such a superb informative topic.

 

Just a couple of comments. The 13th Cav officers in the photo of post #7, could the officer on the extreme right (Lt Lininger 13th cav) be wearing the model 1904 turtleneck sweater?

The other photo shown in post #7 but discussed in post #8 reference the two tone non regulation sweater, that person is a Carranzista officer.

 

Below are a couple of photos, firstly regulation M1911 sweater and the label for reference. The second is a private purchase sweater from the footlocker of an officer, no label.

 

Is this your sweater? Thanks!

[Dragoon]

Yes it is still in my collection..

[Mexican War]

 

 

 

 

Displayed are two knitting books from the Great War era.  Offered within both - the would-be-knitter could access patterns and instructions.  As typical for the era, the instructions assume that the knitter has a knowledge of knitting, techniques and patterns.  In a fast forward to current knitting, the intermediate or avid knitter of 2025 has many publications to choose from, with instructions on yarn selection, needles, findings and much more.