Source: File: Adverts
Military Outfitters, Hazel - Moss Bros & Co Military Tailors - Officer's
Field Kit.jpeg, [online] Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11994327/Daily-Telegraph-November-17-1915.html>
[Accessed: 17 November 2015].
Differences of
rank extended
To fact of
uniform quality -
While general
infantry were
Provided with
issued war kit,
The officers, usually the gentry,
Were expected to
buy their own.
In these ways of
hierarchy,
Having money and
a tailor
Was the way to go
to the front.
If new to the
game or unsure,
Advertisements in
the press
Could guide a
gentleman officer.
Established businesses
could
Provide all that
was needed -
As from Hazel
bring founded
A hundred years
before, 1815 -
Having just spent
a century
Building
reputation of quality.
Based in Glasgow,
Leeds and
London an
established officer,
Of newly
commissioned could
Find amid 300
retail agents,
That would supply
Hazel kits;
At £25 to get a
complete outfit.
While reputation
already built
On dependable
goods, another
Competitor made
an appeal,
To those wishing
to save time
For leave, from
Moss Bros -
Advertised as
Military Tailors.
While younger in
tailoring,
Since only 1851,
Moss Bros.,
Could have
offered every item
Under a single
roof; a London
Based uniform
maker - even
Before the hostilities of 1914.
Their strength
was stated as
Suppliers of good equipment
More than any
other firm -
To provide needs
of prismatic
Compasses and
binoculars;
Giving towns
biggest selection.
With time being
of essence,
Any officer new
or on leave,
Could be equipped
within
30 minutes at Moss
Bros -
To offer a different
shade
Of khaki in the
one basic cut.
Within the same
column,
Advert is offered
final need,
In an officer's
field kit bag,
From S. Goff and
Co - within
A 5-buckled holdall,
is held
Ground sheet and
pillow.
Furthermore is a
bucket,
Bath wash-stand,
chair
And bed - which
pictures
A notable claim -
to provide
Such needs for
the officer,
To be all ready
for the front.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Adverts
Military Outfitters, Hazel - Moss Bros & Co Military Tailors - Officer's
Field Kit. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 17 November. P.5. Col.3. Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11994327/Daily-Telegraph-November-17-1915.html
[Accessed: 17 November 2015].
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 17 November 2015).
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