Middlesex Duke of Cambridge’s Hussars, Yeomanry Cavalry

Officer’s Dress Uniform 1899

In this photo, Lieutenant Mark Mayhew wears the dress uniform of a junior officer as can be seen by the simple gold knot on his sleeve. Field officers had ornate braiding on the black velvet cuff, as seen in the photo of Colonel Mitford, but junior officers, below the rank of captain, had a gold cord Austrian knot traced on either side by thin Russia braid. The collar had three quarter inch wide gold lace along the top and front edge, also with a tracing of Russia braid. The bottom edge of the collar had a line of gold cord which extended down the front edges of the tunic and along the hem. The thick cording across the chest was in five rows, with caps, drops and olivets.
He holds a fur busby which has a green egret feather plume with a red vulture feather base. There is a gold cord boss on the front of the busby and gold cord cap-lines that go around his neck, looping up on the right side of his chest so that the acorn ends hang down. His sword and sabretache are suspended from a hidden waist-belt and the slings are laced in a similar way to the pouch-belt, gold lace with a central green stripe. His boots are of black patent leather and have a gold edge around the top with a boss on the front. These look like levee dress boots so his breeches must also be for levees as opposed to breeches worn on parade.

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