Captain, Stable Dress 1860

The stable dress for officers of the 10th Hussars after the Crimean War and through the 1860s consisted of a short jacket, as seen in the previous photos, blue dress trousers, dress pouch-belt and a blue pill-box forage cap. The leathered bottoms and inside leg were for mounted duty; plain blue trousers with gold stripes for dismounted duty. His sword and sabretache are slung from a hidden waist-belt. The sabretache was plain black, without a badge until c1875. The jacket is decorated with gold cord and braid; gold lace was added to the collar and cuffs for field officers as seen in the photo of Colonel Valentine Baker.
The officer in this photo is named as the Hon C C Molyneux who joined the 10th Hussars as a captain in 1860 after service with the 7th Hussars in the Indian Mutiny. He later commanded the 10th Hussars in India after Valentine Baker left the command in 1873.

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