Tunic, full dress, assistant staff surgeons’, Army Medical Department, 1855-1856.
Scarlet with scarlet facings. Collar upright, open and rounded at front. On each collar front an Assistant Staff Surgeon's badge of rank (a crown). Badge now absent from right front collar. Eight gilt metal buttons down centre bearing the following departmental design: superimposed upon an eight pointed rayed faceted star, a garter bearing the title, MEDICAL STAFF, within which the cypher: VR. Above the garter, displacing the upper point of the star, a monarchial crown. Buttons manufactured by BOGETT AND REYNOLDS ST. MARTINS LANE LONDON. Corresponding buttonholes, hook fastening at base of collar. Front edges piped with white cloth. Bodice and sleeves lined with pale pink silk, skirt with white cloth and collar with black silk. In back skirt lining two vertical pockets lined with cotton.