NAM.1986-09-29-1

Other ranks' tunic worn by Pte William Taylor Rowley, D (Cambridge) Troop, 1st Huntingdonshire Light Horse Volunteers, 1870 (c). Scarlet wool cloth. Single breasted. Bodice joined to skirt with waist seam. Pocket let into waist seam. Centre back skirt has a vent flanked by a pleat. Peter Pan fall collar, pointed cuffs. White wool cloth piping around front and lower edges of collar, upper edge of cuff and front, lower and back edges of bodice and skirt and at skirt vent. Silver metal thread lace proficiency badge positioned above cuff and extending all round right sleeve. Eight half domed silver plated brass buttons down centre front, two at centre back waist, with die struck design of a ducal coronet below the entwined letters ‘MV’ (Duke of Manchester’s Volunteers) and the numeral ‘1’ below all. Two silver plated half domed brass buttons above each cuff at back sleeve seam. Silver double twisted metal thread basket round cord shoulder cords. Body and skirt lined with white nun’s veiling with vertical pocket in each back skirt lining and similar pocket in left breast lining. White wool twill weave lining partially discoloured to a beige-brown. Collar lined with scarlet wool cloth. William Taylor Rowley was the elder brother of Smith Howlett Rowley, wealthy landownders and farmers from Histon, Cambridgeshire. The two brothers joined the Duke of Manchester’s Light horse volunteers around the time of its formation in 1860.