The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Khaki fur felt hat with khaki wool puggaree with an inset red flash, as worn by the infantry. The hat has a leather sweatband and chinstrap. The band is stamped 'THE UNION FELT HAT CO [6 3/4] MAKERS DUNEDIN', and 'N.Z. FORCES', with spaces between the following to be filled in by the wearer: 'REGT COY. BATTN. REGT. NO'. A brass badge, with slider fitting on the reverse, for the 4th (Otago Rifles) Regiment, is attached to the centre front of the puggaree.
The slouch hat worn by the New Zealand Infantry at the beginning of the First World War could be worn with the brim turned up at the left, or with the brim down. It had a centre front to back bash on the crown.
During the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 William George Malone introduced a 'lemon squeezer' bash for the men of his Taranaki Rifles Regiment. It was said to mirror the outline of Mount Taranaki and allowed rain to run off the hat in times of inclement weather. The 'lemon squeezer', brim always worn down, was subsequently adopted by the Wellington Regiment and then by the rest of the New Zealand Infantry Division on 1 January 1916.
Branches of service were differentiated by coloured flashes in the puggarees; individual units by distinctive hat badges.
Brass hat badge featuring a kiwi bird in between two fern leaves. The leaves are joined with two scrolls. The one at the top is inscribed 'South Africa 1901-02' and the bottom one, '4th Otago Regt.'.
Miniature fundraising campaign hat made from an oval disc of khaki felt to which is sewn a khaki cotton crown, which resembles the lemon squeezer shape used by the New Zealand Army. A red cotton braid
Australian Military Forces khaki felt slouch hat, with the rising sun badge. The hat is constructed from a single panel of press shaped animal fur felt. The central oval shaped crown has straight side
Khaki fur felt slouch hat with six pleat cotton puggaree bearing the woollen cloth patch of 27 Infantry Brigade in the form of a triangle (originally blue but now faded to khaki) with an inner inverte
Two brass collar badges featuring a kiwi bird in between two fern leaves. The leaves are joined with two scrolls. The one at the top is inscribed 'South Africa 1901-02' and the bottom one, '4th Otago
Fur felt slouch hat with a khaki cotton puggaree. The left brim of the hat has a press stud to attach it to the side of the crown. Four small ventilator holes in the crown are reinforced with brown ey
