British Army Camouflage Explained

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In this video, join IWM Principal Curator James Taylor as he traces British Army camouflage from 1914 to the present day. Chapters: 00:00 Camouflage Then and Now 00:37 Pre-Camouflage 02:24 First World War 04:58 Second World War and the Denison Smock 07:49 Disruptive Pattern Material 10:10 Multi-Terrain Pattern 11:58 The Future of Camouflage Explore and licence the IWM film clips used in this video: https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/collections/_PalLqWaX Follow IWM on social media: https://x.com/I_W_M https://instagram.com/imperialwarmuseums https://facebook.com/iwm.london https://tiktok.com/@imperialwarmuseums Attributions: Andreas Moe 1910, The Municipal Archives of Trondheim from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Chuck D and Public Enemy Radio 4, Bernie Sanders Rally, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA, 2020, by Cory Doctorow from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ Harajuku Fashion Street Snap 2017 by Dick Thomas Johnson from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Clash in San Diego, 1982, UCLA Library Special Collections from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ DPM Parachute Smock from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Die graue Felduniform der Deutschen Armee, 1915 by Erich F. Hübner from Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creati

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