Private Royal Marine Artillery
By Stobie of Southsea.
Dark blue 'pillbox' forage cap with scarlet band and brass grenade badge. Dark blue tunic & trousers. Tunic collar faced scarlet with yellow worsted grenade badge; scarlet piping along front opening and around skirts; cuffs piped with yellow worsted in the distinctive RMA pattern; twisted yellow worsted shoulder cords; brass buttons. Blue trousers with single wide scarlet stripe. White buff leather waistbelt with brass locket.Walking out cane with nickell 'thimble' top.
Here - sitting (or standing!) for the Victorian high street photographer in their walking-out kit - is a selection of representatives of the Other Ranks of the Regular British Army of the 1880's and '90s, illustrating the wide variety of uniform worn at Home by the ordinary Tommy, across a range of different units.
Each photograph is accompanied by a brief description of the dress worn. Though far from exhaustive, the idea is merely to give an idea of the appearance of the 'soldier in the street'.
Bandsman of 2nd Bn., East Kent Regiment (The Buffs),
by Jacklett of Aldershot.
Scarlet dress tunic with buff facings on collar
and cuffs; 'rearing horse' collar badges; brass buttons. Plain scarlet
shoulder straps with white embroidered regimental titles. White piping
along front opening and on rear skirts below the waist. Bandsman's 'wings'
of scarlet with white tape on each shoulder. White embroidered bandsman's
badge on upper right arm. White musketry proficiency badge above one
good conduct badge on lower left arm. Nickel-topped bamboo cane. Whitened
buff leather belt with brass locket, with bayonet frog and bayonet.
Dark blue glengarry forage cap with lengthened black ribbons at the
rear and brass helmet plate centre and crown as badge. Blue trousers
with scarlet welts.
