WWI M1909/M1912 Hybrid Winter Service Coat • HQ, 2d Cavalry • POINTED CUFFS

Description

WWI M1909/M1912 Hybrid Winter Service Coat HQ Troop, 2nd Cavalry Regiment.
For your consideration is this museum quality U.S. Model 1909/M1912 Hybrid Winter Service Coat.
This tunic has the peaked cuffs like the M1909 EM Service Coat. You can see that the bellowed pockets have been sewn down. The standing falling collar has been removed & replaced by the standing collar used by the Model 1912 EM Winter Service Coat. This tunic has beautiful rimless buttons.
•This tunic has very interesting Bullion British War Time Service Chevrons.
This grouping includes:
• M1909/M1912 Hybrid Winter Service Coat with Rimless Buttons
• M1911 "5-Stitch" Campaign Service Hat
• M1911 Campaign Cord; Cavalry Yellow
• Mexican Border Service Ribbon
• WWI Ribbon
• Sharpshooter Badge
• M1903 Cartridge Belt; Cavalry Tag & eagle buttons
• PFC Cavalry Chevron
• Type I Collar Disk; 2d Regiment
• Type I Collar Disk; HQ Troop, Cavalry Corps
• M1905 Gauntlets; "Private Purchase" dated 1918
This tunic is identified to PFC George Rozov.
2nd Cavalry Regiment
The 2nd Cavalry Regiment, also known as the 2nd Dragoons, is an active Stryker infantry and cavalry regiment of theUnited States Army. The Second Cavalry Regiment is a unit of theUnited States Army Europe and Africa, with its garrison at the Rose Barracks in Vilseck, Germany. It can trace its lineage back to the early part of the 19th century.
Spanish American War & Mexican Border War
The 2nd Cavalry Regiment was sent to the Philippines during the Philippine Insurrection soon after their tenure in Cuba. From 23 January 18 July 1905, they participated in the Cavite Campaign, working to root out insurgents and secure the surrounding countryside.
On 14 February 1910, the troopers of the 2nd Cavalry fought in the Battle of Tiradores Hillon Mindanao island. Their next clashes were during the Moro Rebellion on Jolo island. They fought in the Battle of Mount Bagoak on 3 December 1911, and the Battle of Mount Vrut from 10-12 January 1912. The regiment continued patrolling and security operations until they arrived home in June 1912.
When they returned to the US in 1912, the 2nd Cavalry was sent to the border of Mexico to enforce border laws and prevent raids by banditos. The regiment's sector extended from El Paso, Texas all the way to Presidio, Texas, a stretch of 262 miles. The troopers were busily engaged in the duties of border surveillance and border security. In December 1913, the 2nd Cavalry was moved out of their post at Fort Blissand sent to Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont to conduct maneuvers with several Army National Guard units. In 1914, troopers of the 2nd Cavalry were selected to represent the US Army in the annual horse show in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
WWI
The USA entered World War I on the side of the Allies on 6 April 1917. The 2nd Cavalry Regiment, while at Fort Ethan Allen, was split into thirds; one third remained as the 2nd Cavalry, and the other two became the 18th Cavalry Regiment and the 19th Cavalry Regiment. These "skeletons" of cadre were then recruited to full strength. Later in the year, the 18th Cavalry was redesignated as the 76th Field Artillery Regiment, and the 19th Cavalry was redesignated as the 77th Field Artillery Regiment. The 76th Field Artillery served with the 3rd Infantry Division during the war and their unit heraldry still bears the insignia of the 2nd Dragoons. The 77th Field Artillery served with distinction with the 4th Infantry Division.
General Pershing, the commander of the American Expeditionary Force, arrived in France on 26 June 1917, and 31 troopers from the 2nd Cavalry Headquarters Troop served as his escort. These were the first American troops to land on European soil in the First World War. April 1918 saw the rest of the 2nd Cavalry arrive in France. The regiment was sent to theToul sector and was initially used to manage horse remount depots and as a military polic eunit. Troops B, D, F, and H were formed into a provisional squadron and were the last element of the regiment to engage the enemy as horse-mounted cavalry. The 2nd Cavalry fought in the Aisne-Marne Offensive from 18 July 6 August 1918, and assisted the1st Infantry Division and the 2nd Infantry Division penetrate the German flanks at Soissons. Detachments of the 2nd Cavalry also fought in the Oise-Aisne Offensive from 8 August 11 September 1918. The troopers of the 2nd Cavalry also served with distinction in the Battle of Saint-Mihiel; Troops A, B, C, D, F, G, and H fought valiantly under the command of LTC D.P.M. Hazzard from 12-16 September.
At this point in the war, 6 American divisions massed on an 18-mile front separate from any European command. The 1st Infantry Division began their attack on Mount Sec and reached the Germans reserve lines. From here, the 2nd Cavalry passed through the forest and scouted the open country around Heudi court, Creue, and Vigneulles. Elements of the regiment advanced to Saint Maurice, Wol, and Jonville to pursue the retreating enemy.
The 2nd Cavalry's next engagement, the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, would be the largest battle the AEF would fight in World War I. From 26 September 11 November 1918, the regiment was attached to the 35th Infantry Division and served as the left flank of the advance. Later they served as the main effort of the advance between the Meuse River and the Argonne Forest. From 26 September-2 October, spearheading the assault on the left flank, the 2nd Cavalry fought in a six-day running battle starting inVauquoisand winding through the woods nearby. The men from the Regiment were commended for "...accomplishing their tasks with fearlessness, courage, and disregard for danger and hardship." By the end of the war, 2nd Cavalry troopers had earned three more campaign streamers for the regimental standard for their gallant service. The 2nd Cavalry remained in Koblenz, Germany as part of theArmy of Occupation until August 1919.
1909/11 Hybrid Service Coat
No known specification number
Its estimated time of adoption was the spring of 1917
This pattern of coat appears to have been in service on a limited scale until the end of the war
As a result of its rapid growth, the Army experienced an acute shortage of olive drab service dress during the early months of 1917. Presumably any remaining stocks of obsolescent and obsolete Army clothing that was olive drab in color were pressed into service until such time as America’s textile manufacturers were able to catch up with the Army’s voracious need for woolen clothing.
Because of the clothing shortage, during the summer and autumn of 1917 it was not uncommon for the raw recruits at a training camp to be seen at drill wearing a curious mixture of civilian as well as obsolete and current Army issued clothing. The history of the 30
th
Infantry Division’s 30
th
Field Artillery Regiment, whose men, instead of being trained for war, were actually constructing Camp Sevier in North Carolina, mentioned the lack of regulation Army clothing with some degree of bitterness:
Supplies of all kinds, except food, continued scarce. The rough work of clearing up forest proved to be very hard on army clothes. Men tore their uniforms into shreds. Overalls lasted only a few days, shoes were ripped and snagged and the bottoms burned off around the brush fires. Hats lost their shape and leggings were frayed and torn. The Division Quartermaster … had 30,000 men to care for and not enough equipment for half that number … Winter came on and there were no winter clothes. The winter was bitter cold before the men could be furnished with winter clothes and a fourth of the winter was passed before the winter overcoats arrived … There seemed to be no lack of warm winter clothes, fine heavy overcoats, and good shoes at National Army camps, those camps de-luxe where the selective service men lived luxuriously in steam-heated barracks, but those articles were lacking in at least one National Guard camp where 30,000 of the finest soldiers the world had ever seen lived under canvas through the worst winter the South had experienced since 1898.
In
fact, the clothing shortage was so severe that according to the eyewitness, account of the newspaper correspondent, Heywood Broun, blue woolen clothing left over from the Spanish American War was being worn by African American stevedore regiments in the base port of France where he disembarked from a troopship in the summer of 1917:
The French were also interested in a company of American negroes specially recruited for stevedore service. The negroes had been outfitted with old cavalry overcoats of a period shortly after the Civil War. They were blue coats with gold buttons and the lining was a tasteful but hardly somber shade of crimson.
To augment the Army’s woefully inadequate supplies of woolen service coats, based on surviving examples, it appears that leftover supplies of 1909 Service Coats were upgraded to the 1911 specifications by having their “standing and rolling” collars removed and replaced with a 1911 style “standing” collar.