The Yeomanry


Field Officer's Tunic c1881


The regimental museum has this exhibit of a lieutenant-colonel's tunic post-1881. From the year 1881 the gold embroidered badges of rank were sewn on to silver plaited shoulder gimped cords. The white cloth collar and cuffs were heavily embroidered for majors and above in rank. The six rows of silver cording across the front of the chest have knitted caps and drop loops. The unusual feature of the Warwickshire Yeomanry officers' uniform was the extra silver cord running down the front edge, and the hems, alongside the edging cord. This extra cord is slimmer and is also used to trace around the Austrian knot on the cuffs for all officers, and around the cord on the back seams of the tunic. The pouchbelt is different from the vellum patterned belt seen on later uniforms. It is of oak-leaf silver lace with silver pickers and chains and pre-dates the hussar tunic. The only gilt metal is the Victorian cypher and crown on the silver plated pouch. The silver cord cap-lines have formalised plaited ends which were worn from about 1893, so may or may not match the 1880s uniform on display.


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by Stephen Luscombe