Officer, 1840

The regiment adopted the plain light dragoon coatee in 1840 along with a new shako. It was blue with scarlet facings but no plastron front. The pouch-belt has no central red stripe as before, but there is no information on this. The shako now had a black plume instead of white and red cock fathers. And the bridle was adorned with a black horsehair throat-plume to match. The artist, B T A Griffiths has given the officer the old 1827 sabretache with the George IV cypher even though Queen Victoria was on the throne.