Welcome to some more questions and answers here on the old front line.

These are questions submitted by you, the podcast, listeners,

and each month we select some of the best questions that have been submitted via email and the Discord server to answer here and hopefully give us all fresh perspectives

and new knowledge of this vast subject of the Great War. So let's begin.

Welcome back for some more questions and answers here on the old front line podcast.

And remember, there are two ways that you can submit your questions, and all questions are welcome.

There's no such thing as a silly question.

Send them in and we'll add them to the ever-growing list of questions that have come in from you, the podcast, listeners.

And so those two main ways of doing it are to send it in via email. Email. list of questions that have come in from you, the podcast, listeners.

And so those two main ways of doing it are to send it in via email and also via the Discord server.

And there's links to both of those in the show notes for this episode and on the podcast website.

So let's get down to our first question this week, which comes from Ian on Discord.

I often read in books about officers wearing a British warm. I have a rough idea what this is,

but what exactly is a British warm? And further, how did uniforms develop between August 1914 and November 1918? How did the develop between August 1914 and November 1918?

How did the uniforms worn differ between British and Commonwealth Empire troops, for example?

Well, Ian, I mean, as with many of the questions that come in, this could easily be an episode in its own right and who knows

maybe it will be. But as you refer to in the essence of your question about what is a British

warm, this is a piece of uniform equipment. Uniform equipment worn by British and Empire Commonwealth officers during

the Great War. And it was a type of great coat, so an overcoat worn by those officers

that was made for them by a number of different firms, but the term British warm seems to have been coined

by a Scottish firm, Scottish clothmakers called Cromby, to describe their version of this coat.

And in essence, this was a great coat, a coat worn by officers over their main uniform tunic. And that was for periods

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