Battle Dress

This article is about the standard British combat uniform worn from 1939–1961. For other British Army standard issue uniforms, see British Army uniform.

For the similarly named US Armed Forces standard issue combat uniform used from the 1980s until the first decade of the 21st century, see Battle Dress Uniform (BDU).

For army action clothing in general, see Battledress.

Battledress was the specific title of a military uniform adopted by the British Army in the late 1930s and worn until the 1960s. Several other nations also introduced variants of Battle Dress during the Second World War, including Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States of America (the E.T.O. uniform) and after the Second World War, including Argentina, Belgium, Norway, the Netherlands, and Greece.