In 1795 a combined British army and Royal Navy force under the command of Major-General James Craig and Admiral Elphinstone captured the Dutch Cape Colony. Battalions were dispersed throughout the army; it was rare for two battalions of any regiment to serve in the same brigade. In 1793, shortly before Britain became involved in the French Revolutionary Wars, the army consisted of three regiments of Household Cavalry, 27 line regiments of cavalry, seven battalions in three regiments of Foot Guards and 81 battalions in 77 numbered regiments of line infantry, with two colonial corps (one in New South Wales and one in Canada). In this theatre a British army under the command of the Duke of York formed part of an Allied army with Hanoverian, Dutch, Hessian, Austrian and Prussian contingents, which faced the French Republican Armée du Nord, the Armée des Ardennes and the Armée de la Moselle.

At the start of the French Revolutionary Wars, the "heavy" cavalry were equivalent to dragoons or "medium" cavalry in the French and other armies. King's Royal Hussars, Queen's Royal Hussars, Light Dragoons, the Royal Regiment of Artillery and the Royal Signals wear a black fur busby, with different coloured plumes and bags (this is the coloured lining of the busby that is pulled out and displayed on the left-hand side of the headdress). It consisted even when first transferred of soldiers of mixed nationalities, and later recruited from among prisoners of war and deserters from all over Europe. While the shirt may be worn during the winter months, it is always worn with the sleeves rolled down.During the wars, many émigré units were formed from refugees from countries occupied by France, and from among deserters and prisoners of war from the French armies. Infantry Warrant Officers Class Two and SNCOs wear a scarlet (for WOs) or crimson (for SNCOs) sash over the right shoulder to the hip.

Regimental buttons are worn; for most units, these are of gold colour, with black buttons worn by The Rifles, Royal Gurkha Rifles and Royal Army Chaplains Department, silver by the Special Air Service, Special Reconnaissance Regiment, Honourable Artillery Company and Small Arms School Corps and bronze by the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment. Please can anyone recommend some sources to help with that and making other decisions for other units etc.Their introduction allowed the rapid differentiation of sergeants and corporals from private soldiers. Major-General Sir Julian Gascoigne (right), wearing General officer's full dress as Governor of Bermuda (with Minister for Foreign Affairs the Earl of Home, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, British Ambassador to the United States Sir David Ormsby-Gore, and United States President John F. Officers also needed permission from their commanding officers to marry, and for their wives to accompany them, but they were not subject to quota, although restrictions might be made due to the officer's age or seniority.

At the same time another British force captured the Dutch colony Main article: Third Anglo-Mysore War The Death of Colonel Moorhouse at the Storming of the Pettah Gate of Bangalore by Robert Home. The Duke of Wellington himself said that many of the men "enlist from having got bastard children – some for minor offences – some for drink". It became a barracks and walking-around dress with the introduction of the Jungle Green combat dress uniforms in the mid-1940s and is synonymous with the British soldier of the 1940s and 50s. Originally, wings were embellishments in a certain number foot regiments, so that, in 1750, nineteen out of forty-nine foot regiments wore them, although they had been forbidden in 1730.The practice of distinguishing regiments by different facings was in general use by the early 18th century. Request for a copy of any Army Dress Committee notes that have been issued since the 359th meeting on 7 March 2019" (PDF) . After the restoration of the Monarchy in 1660 the Monmouth cap, a broad-brimmed, low-crowned felt hat, with one side of the brim generally turned up, was introduced. Cambridge blue: Army Air Corps including attached personnel and REME Aircraft trades, 47 Regiment Royal Artillery [28] any army personnel serving in an aviation unit.