NAM.2001-04-216-1

Sergeant’s full dress tunic, other ranks, 4th (Territorial ) Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 1910 (c). Wool cloth; scarlet with buff facings. Made by Samuel Brothers, 1910 (c). Composite metal badge which is a Buffs dragon on each collar front. On the left sleeve above point a cloth badge of crossed rifles (marksman). From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum. Sergeant’s full dress tunic. Wool cloth; scarlet with buff facings. Collar, upright, composite metal badge which is a Buffs dragon on each collar front. Cuffs, pointed to a height of 6 in. On the left sleeve above point a cloth badge of crossed rifles (marksman). On right sleeve, upper arm, sergeant’s rank chevrons. Back, plain, false central skirt vent, piped with white cloth and flanked by a pleat bearing a two-pointed slash, each slash piped with white cloth and bearing two large regimental buttons, two similar buttons at centre back waist. At each side waist a metal belt hook. On each shoulder a strap of scarlet wool cloth edged with white cotton braid, each bears a gilt metal title ‘T/4/BUFFS’, strap fastened with a small gilt metal regimental button. Seven large gilt metal regimental buttons down centre front with corresponding buttonholes. At left waist a watch pocket. On inside left a large label now partly disintegrated black print on white: ‘SAMUEL BROTHERS’ (the rest unreadable). Body lined with rough wool cloth, sleeves lined with white cotton material.