Just picked up these officers boards for Infantry Regiment 23. The "class A" version is pre-1915. Prior to 1915 the color on the board denoted your units Corps assignment, yellow was, as I recall, the VI Corps. After 1915 The color denoted branch. Thus the "subdued" boards have white piping.
The pips and numbers on the subdued boards are painted a brown which approximates the color of tarnished brass. I read once that the Germans captured a ton of Brit brown paint in the first weeks of the war and pressed it into service under the principal of "waste not want not." Anyone else heard this story?
The pips and numbers on the subdued boards are painted a brown which approximates the color of tarnished brass. I read once that the Germans captured a ton of Brit brown paint in the first weeks of the war and pressed it into service under the principal of "waste not want not." Anyone else heard this story?