Service Dress, India 1881

The Horse Artillery in India wore undress uniforms as shown in this contemporary illustration. The left hand figure is a driver, equipped with a whip and armed with a revolver. He has a white pouch-belt on his left shoulder and an ammunition pouch on his waist-belt. He has no sword. His waist-length blue stable jacket is edged all around with yellow braid and his collar is scarlet. The 1864 Dress Regulations state that brigade staff sergeants wore rank badges on both sleeves while battery staff sergeants and other NCOs wore them on the right arm only. His white helmet for hot climates has a brass chin-chain.
The officer on the right, Wears a plain blue frock with rank badges on the shoulder straps. Five gilt buttons fasten the jacket down the front. His blue breeches have a red stripe and are worn with Napoleon boots and steel spurs. He has an undress sabretache with an Artillery badge, suspended from a hidden belt, on three black leather slings. The sword also is suspended from this hidden waist-belt. His white hot climate helmet has a gilt ball on top and a gilt chin-chain. The ball replaced the gilt spike in 1881.

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