Officers in Undress 1903

The officers wear undress serge frocks with brown leather Sam Browne belts. They have gold laced blue breeches and knee boots and the gold-laced pillbox forage cap. The blue serge frocks have silver shoulder chains with rank badges and the oak-leaf badges on the collar. This item of dress was probably introduced in the mid-1890s for the officers while the rank and file were issued with theirs in 1898. The vet, Capt Johnson, is standing at the back on the right of the photo with the old style black leather pouch-belt with gold wavy lines. The surgeon is third from the left, at the back, with the black belt and 3 straight gold lines. One officer, seated on the left, has a peaked forage cap, Captain and Adjutant J P Jeffcock of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. His cap has a yellow cap-band and a white cover on the blue top. There is a discrepancy concerning the gold piping around the top edge of the pillbox cap. One officer, Major Trotter sitting on a chair third from the left, distinctly has the gold edge, but many of the others do not. Unfortunately they are nearly all facing left of the photo. The photo was published with the title, Jersey Brow, Aldershot 1903. The inspecting officer is in the middle with a white topped cap, Maj-Gen Lord Chesham. Next to him, on his left hand is Col Rolleston.