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Green Linnets The 39th Foot, so called from the colour of their facings. Now the Dorsetshire, and the facings are white.

The 39th Foot is a regiment, which was later called the Dorsetshire. Facings are part of their uniform: the frilly bits at the front of eighteenth and nineteenth century (?) soldiers' uniforms, I think. Rhuby, when did khaki come in? Something at the back of my mind is saying Boer War.

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