The medical officer in East Africa wore the white or khaki dress for officers, but with dark blue piping, gold buttons, a gold Aesculapian staff on their shoulder straps, and a gold cord on the sun helmet.

Officers wore a woven silver belt with two black lines and one of red witha silver buckle for garrison dress with the white uniform. In the field officers wore a brown leather belt with open-faced buckle of white metal. The NCOs wore a natural leather belt, with a rectangular buckle of yellow metal and a circular, white metal center. On it was a natural leather bayonet frog, black scabbard with white metal tip, and bayonet with steel hilt and brown grip. The bayonet knot, worn tied to the frog of an Unteroffizier or Sergeant, was in black-white-red of the type worn by Marines. A Vice-Feldwebel and Feldwebel wore the officers sword (suspended from a brown belt by brown leather cords) and sword knot (silver strap with red stripe in center, silver crown and tassel). On expedition and in the field they wore a bayonet (with officers sword knot?). An illustration by Pietsch appears to indicate that with the khaki expedition dress, company officers carried a rifle. In addition to the pistol holster on the belt is a bayonet with officers sword knot tied to the frog.

With the khaki jacket and pants, NCOs wore gray puttees and natural leather lace-up shoes. With the white jacket they wore long white trousers and white shoes. The dress of officers was similar to that of the NCOs. The Zinnfigur study mentions boots or puttees with regard to khaki expedition dress.

The Color of the khaki worn by the Imperial Protective Force in East Africa was a brownish khaki, darker than khaki of today. I have seen it described as having more brown than the British khaki of the period. Based upon the color illustrated by Pietsch, and sample of the cloth used by the British in the Anglo-Boer War, I would say that the description is fair.

Such are the details I found on the dress that was worn in garrison and in the field up to the outbreak of World War I. It should be added here that from 1896 on during the same period, the white officers and NCOs of the Protective Force for Cameroon wore the same white and Khaki uniform as East Africa, except that cap band and piping on the crown of the peaked cap, and the underlay of the officers shoulder straps was poppy red (the colony color for cameroon).

Lastly, starting in 1912 detached army officers serving as officers or officials in Togo, New gunea, and Samoa, wore the tropical uniform of the protective force for East Africa., but the distinctive color of the colony was yellow for Togo, green for New Guinea, and rose for Samoa.