Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. The Ministry of Defence is to replace all existing British Army uniforms for a new design, the first big ...

The British Army has strongly criticised the misuse of military uniforms after a flute band wore combat fatigues during a Twelfth parade in Co Down. Members of Newtownards Melody Flute Band took ...

The British Army is introducing a new camouflage design for all its soldiers after tests showed that it made them less likely to be seen by the enemy. The new uniform has a combination of seven ...

Yet uniforms were not always like that, in design or purpose. As Allan Mallinson explains in The Making of The British Army, it was in the New Model Army, Britain’s first standing army formed in 1645, ...