Welcome to Ottoman Uniforms. This is a historical interest website looking at Ottoman military uniforms and insignia, from sellected periods, between 1826 till 1923.
Intended for English speaking researchers, interested in military history; collecting; wargaming; modelling; military fashion history; art history; filmmakers; and family histories.
Many of the terms, phrases and spellings of ranks are also used, to preserve what may have been original pronunciations.
Chris Flaherty
This website includes some smaller studies which have been undertaken, on Ottoman military related uniforms and insignia of the Ottoman North African states:
Overview Studies of the Army and Navy of Egypt:
Ottoman Military School Uniforms:
Ottoman Civil Police Uniforms:
Ottoman period uniforms of interest:
Other armies, and uniforms of interest:
A range or recently completed books on Ottoman Army and Navy uniforms history can be ordered on this page:
A collection of articles on Ottoman uniforms can be found on this page:
Books about wargaming rules for the Napoleonic period can be found here:
THE SHEPHERD PROTECTS THEIR FLOCK
First Armies, and First Tactics at the Crossing of the Military Threshold
Chris Flaherty
2021
Turkish Army and Navy; Egyptian, Tunisian, Anglo-Turkish Contingents; Ottoman Police and Romanian Army
Chris Flaherty
2020
March-August 2015: Chris Flaherty was a contributor to the Turkish Gallipoli Centenary Exhibition - ‘From Depths to the Trenches: Gallipoli 1915’. This opened in March, with a very successful press conference in the Isbank Museum in Istanbul. He contributed two large illustrations, Ottoman infantry, and the Imperial Ottoman Navy uniforms in 1915.
July 2015: Chris Flaherty is mentioned as one of the contributors to 'Philip Jowett. Armies of the Greek-Turkish War 1919–22. MEN-AT-ARMS 501. Osprey Publishing, 20 Jul 2015)'.
January 2014: Christopher Flaherty’s web site is mentioned in the latest Wellington Antique & Historic Arms newsletter for being instrumental in identifying a rare WW1 Turkish helmet that belongs to the Secretary of the WA&HAA.
Monday, 4 February 2013: Ottoman-Uniforms.com went online! Ottoman-Uniforms.com rated in the Top WW1 Militaria Sites! Reached the first milestone of 10,000 Views on 8 November 2013! 30,000 Views (in the first 2-years)!
2012: Chris Flaherty's pnainting based on a passage in C.E.W.Bean, the WW1 Australian war correspondent records vividly the first time that the ANZACs saw a Turkish soldier, sighting a ‘lonely figure on the skyline'.
August 2011: Chris Flaherty contributed to German Colonial Uniforms' section on 'German Officers and NCOs in the Ottoman Army 1913-18: Ottoman Army Uniforms'.
October 2009: Thanks to Chris Flaherty for providing the information on updates. made on the German Army in Ottoman Uniforms Page; and information on cap tallies to the German Navy in Ottoman Service Page.
June 2009: Thanks to Christopher Flaherty for his help with information on new page Ottoman Army Uniforms page.