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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 |