Lieutenant 1864

The dress uniform for officers of the 19th in the 1860s was the scarlet tunic with green facings, trousers of Oxford mixture in the winter months, and the cloth covered shako. This dress cap (1861-69) had a cork base and was covered in dark blue cloth which had criss-cross stitching all over, giving it the informal name of the quilted shako. This lieutenant has a cap that is without gold lace, as was the case also for ensigns and captains. Majors had one row of lace around the top edge, and lieutenant-colonels two rows. The tunic has a green collar that is rounded and open at the front, with white edging and a line of gold lace inside that. Field officers had gold lace on the base of the collar a well as the top. There were three ways of showing rank; a star for ensigns, a crown for lieutenants and both crown and star for captains. These three rankings were the same for the three field officer ranks, but with the extra lace. The lace was also shown on the green cuff, a single row for captain and below, double for major and above. The slash flap style was worn until 1868 when the pointed cuff was introduced.
This officer is named as Lieutenant Beauchamp Colcluogh of co Carlow, Ireland who reached the rank of captain but left the regiment in 1873.

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