Facing colour according to the position that a particular regiment held in the order of battle - that is within a brigade, division or corps. As an example, amongst the Russian line infantry, the two brigades within each division were distinguished by red or blue shoulder straps; while the four regiments within each division wore red, blue, white or green collar patches and cap bands respectively. Facing colour A facing colour is a common tailoring technique for European military uniforms where the visible inside lining of a standard military jacket, coat or tunic is of a different colour to that of the
Sidney Grapes Sidney Grapes Sidney Samuel Grapes (6 June 1887 – 28 April 1958) was a British comedian, the owner of a bicycle shop and later a garage in Potter Heigham, a village in northeast Norfolk. In the years before the Second World War, he acquired a reputation as an amateur Norfolk dialect comedian, performing at social functions in many parts of the county and on the radio. However, he is most famous for "The Boy John Letters". The letters appeared in the "Eastern Daily Press", the regional newspaper, at irregular intervals. Grapes would simply write them when he felt like it