RSM c1890

This interesting photo of a Regimental Sergeant Major shows him wearing the dress tunic with silver frogging and four silver lace chevrons on his right arm. Above the stripes is a cloth badge with an embroidered Prince of Wales plume, and an embroidered crown above that. A later photo, taken c1910, of trumpeters, shows them wearing metal NCO arm badges. His array of medals indicate that he served in a regular cavalry regiment. The middle two medals are for service in Egypt and the Sudan in either 1882 or 1884-5. The clasp looks like EL-TEB_TAMAAI which would suggest he had served in the 10th Hussars. The medal ribbon covered by his pouch-belt could be the crimson and green Afghanistan medal of 1879-80. If that is the case and he was a 10th Hussar then the clasp would be for ALI MUSJID or PEIWAR KOTAL. The silver cords are joined with silver olivets, similar to those on officers' uniforms. Other Ranks had white metal buttons but his high non-commissioned rank entitles him to this distinction. His pill-box forage cap, similarly, has an officer's silver oak-leaf pattern lace band instead of plain white.

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