The Yeomanry


Officer, 4th Troop c1799


This portrait of an unknown officer can be seen at the museum of the Warwickshire Yeomanry, The Court House, Jury Street, Warwick. It is the clearest evidence we have of the uniform. The jacket and trousers are French grey with green collar and cuffs. There are three vertical rows of gilt buttons on the chest and gilt shoulder scales. He has a crimson sash around his waist and a white leather pouch-belt. The Tarleton style light dragoon helmet has a green turban with gilt chains, a white feather plume on the left side, and an inscribed strap over the peak on which can be read '4th Troop War..' They became a regiment in 1797 and it may be that from 1794 until 1797 the four Troops wore different colour turbans on the helmet and that after they were embodied as the Warwickshire Yeomanry they standardised the uniform.


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