Limit placed on common use of straw hat in service

Usage examples of forage cap.

George at his buttonhole and a plain forage cap set straight on his head.

No one could look anything but shabby in trousers, tunic, and forage cap that had gone through the war, even if those clothes were cleaned and mended, as Mollie's were.

The flame from the barrel stabbed through the dazzling air, and with a short cry Wilson fell across the carbine, then rolled back clutching a bloodied elbow, his forage cap cuffed off his head by the discharge wave of the explosion.

Porta put Stalin into the pocket he had made on the outside of his greatcoat, and there he sat looking out over the edge, a red cat with a forage cap tied on its head.

I looked at this latest device, a hideous forage cap with long flaps,7 and said I was sure it must prove admirably serviceable, and have a very smart appearance, too.

Boyd stuffed his beret into a pocket of his camouflaged battle smock and pulled on the driver's grey forage cap.

He wore a forage cap slanted to his left eye and the two rows of medal ribbons above his left pocket made a bright splash of colour.

We passed a man in a dark-blue army overcoat, wearing a blue forage cap—.

We passed a one-armed middle-aged man, also wearing a blue forage cap.

Finally I struggled into the heavy German greatcoat and jammed the forage cap over the bandages that circled my head.

But none was uglier or looked readier for mischief than the governor of the place, a great, grey-bearded ox of a man in a dirty old uniform coat, baggy trousers, and gold-tasselled forage cap.

Their ground crews stood by with indulgent grins until they sobered a little and then Mac, the head mechanic, stepped forward and tipped his forage cap.

As to my dress, I covered my Hussar uniform with a long cloak, and I put a grey forage cap upon my head.