tunic, full dress, tunic
Accession Number

NAM.2001-05-56-1

Description

Frock, kersey, 3rd Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 1900 (c) Royal Army Clothing Factory, Pimlico, 1900 (c) Scarlet wool kerseymere with buff wool upright collar with brass collar badges and pointed buff coloured cuffs. Six brass general service buttons to front and one on each shoulder. Shoulder straps are white piped, with slots for fitting shoulder titles (absent). With paper label showing issue to 3rd Battalion. One internal pocket and two external at waist, both lined with buff. Paper label is damaged, and moth grazing damage to back as well as some pulled threads. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum.