Officer, Undress 1867

This unnamed officer wears the undress forage cap which is of blue cloth with a red cap band. The special badge for the Kings Regiment is worn above the embroidered number 8. It is difficult to tell whether the badge is embroidered or metal, but there is a silver White Horse on a scroll, probably inscribed KINGS within a garter inscribed HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE.
He wears a blue serge patrol jacket which is of similar length to the tunic. It is edged with black mohair braid and has black cord frogging across the chest. There are four lines of frogging, top to waist, decreasing in length, fastening in the middle with netted olivet buttons. On the cuffs are black cord Austrian knots. This cording is on the back seams, doubled and forming trefoils top and bottom. The patrol jacket replaced the frock coat in 1867, and like the frock coat, did not show rank badges for officers below field rank.

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