If you have visited our website in recent weeks, you will perhaps have noticed the new heading, "Newsletter", on our menu bar - and a short message in that section announcing the launch of our newsletter "Regimental Orders" in Spring 2000 Well, the moment has come, our first newsletter is available in both printed and electronic form, and is being sent free to all our customers, past and present. We hope to publish at least twice a year and this first issue, like all first issues, is necessarily a trial run, and a "trial bite" for you, the potential subscriber We have great ambitions for the future of this newsletter, which we see as a unique way of bringing together, on an international basis, all those collectors, re-enactors and researchers whose particular interest lies in British uniforms and equipment of the nineteenth century We have been fortunate in securing the services of Chris Coogan as our editor. Chris was formerly editor of "Dress Regulations", the newsletter of the Victorian Military Society Uniform Study Group, and if you were a member of that group, you will know that you can expect a very high quality publication. This issue is not as "fat" as we hope future issues will be - but that is largely up to you - let us have an article, photographs and news of your particular group, or even simply a "letter to the editor"!

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Chris Coogan, 1, Lane Green Avenue, Bilbrook, Wolverhampton WV8 2JT. U.K.

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In this First Issue

The Late Victorian Soldier in Portrait Photographs

Some Notes on the Officers Uniforms of the 10th Foot

1871 Valise Equipment

Present Arms:- News From Re-enactment Groups

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~ OUR COVER PICTURE ~ Photographed by Charleton & Son of Dublin and the Curragh, a sergeant of the Royal Engineers proudly poses with his young family in the 1880s. Wearing medals for the Egyptian campaign of 1882, together with the LS&GC medal, he wears his scarlet dress tunic with blue velvet facings and gold piping around collar and cuffs. The distinctive RE grenade badge can be seen in gold above his sergeant's chevrons. His dark blue trousers have a broad scarlet stripe.