Major in Undress 1881

The infantry patrol jacket was blue with four lines of black braid across the front ending in drop loops and fastening with black olivet buttons. The jacket also fastened with hooks and eyes and had inch wide flat black silk along the edges. The cuffs had Austrian knot devices which did not alter with rank in the same manner as hussars dress jackets. There was also braid decoration up the back seams ending in crow’s feet loops top and bottom. On the shoulders were straps in the same blue material, edged with half inch flat braid and having gold badges of rank. He is dressed in blue breeches and knee boots for mounted duties. His plain black leather sabretache is suspended from a hidden webbing waist-belt, with white leather slings, three in this case, not two as in the photo of Lt-Col Anderson.
His forage cap is of blue cloth, 3 inches high and having a black silk cap-band in oak-leaf pattern. The peak is drooping and has a gold wire embroidered edge almost obscuring the black patent leather. The badge was unusual. It was embroidered; the Princess’s cypher and coronet in gold, while the cross was in silver with a crimson edge. This officer is named as Major Crosbie Barton.

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