Forage Cap - Victorian Engineers, circa 1893 Reg. No: ST 043231 5

I thought you might like to know that this type of Field Cap is popularly known as a 'Torin' although the origin of the name has been lost. It's shape is one of the earliest forms of British Field Cap and was used in the Navy and Marines in the Naopleonic era, was adopted by the Guards around the time of the Crimea and by the 1880s was widely seen on the General Staff and front line units of all Arms of British, Indian and other Colonial establishments. In the 1890s it was largely replaced by the so called Austrian type which had 2 small buttons securing an ear warming folding side piece. Nevertheless a few units stubbornly stuck to the Torin and at least 3 British Army units still wear it to this day.