The Yeomanry


2nd Lieutenant 1897


This detail is from a photograph published in the Navy and Army Illustrated, 16th July 1897 which is titled Brigadier and Staff, North Midland Brigade. The seated officer is a senior surgeon but the man standing behind him is a junior officer wearing the dress uniform of the South Notts Hussars.

The busby that he wears seems taller than the regular hussar busby which was supposed to be 6.25 inches high in front and 7.75 inches high at the back. The busby bag is red and the plume is white egret feathers (13 inches high) over red vulture feathers. The gold cord cap-lines loop around the neck and are curved over to hang on the right shoulder. His gold shoulder cords have no rank badge for a 2nd lieutenant. The gold and crimson barrel-sash is worn here, whereas in some formal portraits it is not. There is something a little incongruous about this sash worn with this type of jacket. In the photo of Colonel Trotter, the acorn ends hang down at the front of the sash but here the ends can just be seen hanging rather high in front of his right arm.

He has the gold laced pouch-belt which is described as having blue edges. Unfortunately we cannot see if he is wearing the full dress sabretache with red cloth ground and Victorian cypher. But another 1897 photo, of Lieutenant Seely mounted in review order, shows the sabretache being worn so we must assume that this young officer has one too.


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