Uniforms of service battalions of British army 1914

Hello everyone,
I have a simple query. I know some expert certainly help me to the query. In army list December 1914, I saw there are several service battalions in each regiment. But nothing is mentioned about their uniforms. My query is - What were the uniforms of these service battalions?
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Shams

Hi Shams.
As you probably already know the "service battalions" of the British infantry were the additional units raised after the outbreak of war in 1914 in order to absorb the influx of volunteers for Kitchener's new armies. Thus in December 1914 a given regiment would normally (there were some variations) comprise: 1st and 2nd Btns (regulars); 3rd Btn (Special Reserve); 4th and 5th Btns (territorials); 6th Btn + (service). As the peacetime regiments were quickly expanded the number of service battalions would multiply - up to perhaps 20 or more by the end of the war. In 1919 the SBs were disbanded and the regiments shrunk to their peactime establishments. As far as uniforms went, the SBs wore the standard khaki field dress and badge of their regiment - the distinctive scarlets, blues and greens of the peacetime regulars and territorials went into store upon mobilisation in August 1914 and were formally put into abeyance about two months later. Accordingly there was no need to provide special dress regulations for the SBs.

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