Zulu Dawn:Col Crealock. “Excuse me, my Lord, there's something I must convey to you. I rode along the track down to Rorke's Drift. The sky above is red with fire. Your orders my Lord? Do we move to the drift?”
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Colour of general service wagon during the 1879 Invasion
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Teld
Posts : 20 Join date : 2010-05-21 Age : 54 Location : Corby
Subject: Colour of general service wagon during the 1879 Invasion Sun Mar 13, 2011 3:52 pm
Gentlemen
what would have been the colour scheme in use by the british army in 1879 for the painting of goverment property. Most notably the general service wagon, artillery Limbers and Guns. I fear I may have made a mistake with the colours, I have gone with the ww1 era green for the general service wagon but I have a sneeky suspition that blue gray was still in use.
can anyone help ?
90th
Posts : 10288 Join date : 2009-04-07 Age : 65 Location : Melbourne, Australia
Subject: Colour of General Service Wagons. Sun Mar 13, 2011 8:47 pm
Hi Teld. A friend has informed me the that the wagons and gun carriages were indeed still painted grey . But the army hired a lot of privately owned wagons to make up the shortfall and they were mainly painted green with red wheels ! . Hope this has been of some help .
cheers 90th .
Teld
Posts : 20 Join date : 2010-05-21 Age : 54 Location : Corby
Subject: Re: Colour of general service wagon during the 1879 Invasion Mon Mar 14, 2011 6:16 pm
Thank you kindly 90th I thought that might be the case.
Colour of general service wagon during the 1879 Invasion
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