The distinctive red jackets with black cuffs and gold buttons worn by Chelsea Pensioners, who live at Royal Hospital Chelsea ...

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, ...

The Army's 'pink and green' uniforms will arrive in the hands of new soldiers by 2021, with recruiters and drill sergeants expected to receive the World War II-era throwback uniform by the end of ...

Soldiers who have not yet purchased new uniform may do so at their local AAFES, using their yearly clothing stipend. For more on Army uniforms, visit the Military.com Uniform section.