Sergeant-Major and Officer  Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry c.1875 after a photograph
After a surviving jacket in the
Waiouru Army Museum

Sergeant-Major's Jacket

Jacket:
Scarlet with blue epaulettes,facings,braiding on back, austrian knots and piping.

Rank Badges:
Crown gold on red. 
Chevrons gold on blue.

Buttons.
Brass down front of jacket and silver on the epaulettes.

Marksman and effecency badges 1" spacing
all round.

8 twists to the twisted cord epaulettes
Books:

Millitary Uniforms of the World in Colour
by Preben Kannik
Blanford Press.  London.  1968

Cavalry Uniforms of Britain and the Commonwealth including other Mounted Troops
by Robert & Christopher Wilkinson-Latham
illustrated by Jack Cassin-Scott
Blandford Press.  London.  1969

Military Uniforms of Britain & the Empire
by Major R.M.Barnes
Sphere Books Edition.  London.  1972

All other drawings copyright of Rod Allison
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