An autochrome picture from 1915 shows French soldiers in a trench, wearing blue and khaki ... during WW2. The lightweight material, in a range of muted colors, was a popular military uniform ...

When we reached warmer lattitudes they took away our battledress and gave us khaki-drill uniforms instead. Now those were the days when young men thought it was important to be neat and smartly ...

Eric Annable of the 1st Fife and Forfar Yeomanry Tank Regiment aged about 21 Being in the 1st Fife & Forfar Yeomanry Tank Regiment our uniform was ... few embellishments. Khaki battledress ...

By the outbreak of the war with Spain, the small U.S. Army was being outfitted with the 1898-pattern khaki uniform blouse ... in design to the British and French pattern sun helmets.

Way back. It chose a new uniform that looks almost exactly like the old green gabardine wool field coat and khaki trousers that officers wore in World War II. Probably not by coincidence ...