✨ Defence Force Dress Regulations
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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
No. 52
TABLE A—continued.
Orders of Dress—Officers—continued.
| Order of Dress. | Dress. | Occasions when to be worn. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drill order. | No. 3—Service dress. | Divisional and brigade parades, as may be ordered. All ordinary drills, and regimental duties and fatigues, and when attending examination for promotion. District regimental courts-martial, and courts of inquiry; garrison and Regimental Boards. Regimental orderly duties in barracks or camps, and on other occasions when not on duty with troops for which no special order of dress in regulation. | Headquarters and District Staff shall wear their undress uniform with frock, and, if mounted, knee-boots. Forage cap shall be worn in place of service dress hat unless otherwise ordered. Swords shall be worn when on duty, and as the occasion may require when not on duty. |
| Mess order. | No. 4—Mess dress. | Dining at naval and military messes unless full dress is ordered, and at naval and military evening dances and entertainments. | Shall not be worn under canvas at manœuvres. |
- Horse Furniture—Officers.
Officers’ horse furniture shall include the head-rope in all orders of parade. When specially ordered, mess-tins, nose-bags, picketing-gear, forage nets, and surcingle pads shall be carried.
| Branch of Service. | Review Order. | Marching Order. | Drill Order. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff .. | Saddle; bridle complete; breast-plate; wallets (general officers wear the gold lace flounce over the wallets and saddlecloth except when “Staff in blue” is the order of dress); cape, (greatcoat when ordered,) carried behind the saddle. | As for review order, but with field-glasses on off side and shoe case on near side of saddle, and without gold lace cover, flounce, and saddle-cloth, for general officers; cloak rolled behind saddle. | As for marching order, but no cloak unless ordered by the officer commanding the troops. |
| Field Artillery, Mounted Rifles, and Infantry. | Saddle; bridle complete; breast-plate; wallets; cape rolled and strapped in front of the wallets, or new greatcoat behind the saddle. | As for review order, but with field-glasses on off side and shoe case on near side of saddle, and greatcoat, rolled, behind saddle | As for marching order, but no greatcoat unless ordered. |
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NZ Gazette 1905, No 52
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Dress Regulations for New Zealand Defence Forces
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🛡️ Defence & MilitaryUniform, Service Dress, Drill Order, Mess Dress, Horse Furniture, Saddle, Bridle, Wallets, Field Glasses