Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. This is a lovely example of a tropical enlisted man’s forage cap. Features the classic string closure eyelets to the back with closure string. The front features a lovely yellow embroidered five-pointed imperial Japanese star cap badge with background. There is no chinstrap present and appears to never have had one. The cap actually features a nice, rare neck flap on the rear known as a havelock. The Havelock was supposed to protect men who were fighting in hot climates from sunstroke. But the soldiers found the Havelock actually made them hotter by not allowing air to circulate around their head and neck so many discarded them, making the havelock a very difficult forage cap accessory to find.
All in all very nice example of a WW2 Japanese cap, quality items of this kind are very rarely encountered.
Forage Caps
Forage cap is the designation given to various types of military undress, fatigue or working headwear. These varied widely in form, according to country or period. The coloured peaked cap worn by the modern British Army for parade and other dress occasions is still officially designated as a forage cap.
History
In the 18th century, forage caps were small cloth caps worn by British cavalrymen when undertaking work duties such as foraging for food for their horses. The term was later applied to undress caps worn by men of all branches and regiments as a substitute for the full dress headdress.
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