Officer’s full dress coatee, 1st Bn 1st Regiment of Native Infantry, Bombay, 1806 (c)-1808 (c).
Worn by Lt Col Andrew Bethune who served with the regiment from 1796 to 1810.
Scarlet wool coatee with yellow wool facings, silver bullion epaulettes with the gold star of a Lieutenant Colonel, three buttons are missing and have been replaced with replicas.
The officers’ uniforms of the East India Company’s forces generally followed the same pattern as those worn by officers in the British Army.