The 1,200 Canadian troops serving under Baden-Powell were the first to wear the campaign hat as a part of their official uniform, and this very likely influenced Baden-Powell's decision to order 10,000 of the hats for the British troops.
When designing the iconic uniform for Boy Scouts, Robert Baden-Powell drew on the hat worn by Frederick Russell Burnham, the celebrated American scout, during his service as Chief of Scouts in the BSAC and the British Army in the 1890s.
Photo portrait of Major-General Robert Baden-Powell wearing a campaign hat, 1896Īt least as early as 1893, hats of the Stetson Boss of the Plains type were being creased into pointed tops by British South Africa Company (BSAC) scouts in Africa. Some were worn with campaign cords, mainly as a form of decoration. The name started to be used after the 1872–1876 regulations, which introduced a black felt hat-which could be drab after 1883-for fatigue use derived from the types popularized during the American Civil War. The crease was influenced by the designs of the sombreros worn by the Mexican Vaqueros. Army mounted troops posted to the far-west sometimes wore wide-brimmed civilian hats, which were more practical than the regulation shakos and forage caps then issued. The origins of the hat can be traced to the 1840s when U.S.
It should not be confused with the Stetson style cowboy hat, which has a different brim and crease, nor a slouch hat. The hat is most commonly worn as part of a uniform, by such organizations as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the New Zealand Army, United States Park Rangers, and Scouts. The campaign hat is occasionally referred to as a Stetson, derived from its origin in the company's Boss of the Plains model in the late 19th century. 1910sĪ campaign hat, sometimes called campaign cover, is a broad-brimmed felt or straw hat, with a high crown, pinched symmetrically at the four corners. The Army replaced AIT Drill Sergeants with Platoon Sergeants in 2008, but a decade later reversed the decision.A campaign hat used by the Legion of Frontiersmen, c. Drill Sergeants trained recruits during the first and second phases of their training, Basic Combat Training (“boot camp”) and Advanced Individual Training (AIT), as well as at One Station Unit Training (the two phases combined). The most recent edition of the Army’s uniform regulations-the edition of DA 670-1-is notable for a rather astonishing list of entries that should have been deleted, and of course there is no way of knowing what errors of omission need to be corrected in the next edition.ĭiscontinued following the conclusion of World War II, Drill Sergeant Hats were brought back after the Army introduced Drill Sergeants in pilot programs held at Fort Gordon, Georgia and Fort Jackson, South Carolina in 1963 and then implemented Drill Sergeants service-wide. However, this should not be presumed to be conclusive proof that plastic rain covers are not authorized for wear with Drill Sergeant Hats. All that is said regarding plastic rain-cap covers is that (1) they are an optional purchase item, (2) they must completely cover the crown and visor, and (3) males may wear them with the Blue Service Cap. Army uniform regulations do not provide wear guidance regarding clear, plastic rain covers for the Drill Sergeant Hat, also referred to as a “Campaign Hat” or colloquially as a “Round Brown” (World War II regulations called them “Service Hats”).
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