NAM.1986-04-7-1

Tunic, officers’, full dress, Alexandra Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment) (1st Bn), worn by Lt Col C H de St P Bunbury, 1905 (c). Scarlet wool cloth with green wool cloth pointed cuffs and upright collar. Single breasted. White wool cloth piping along front edges of body, on skirt slashes, skirt vent and on false centre back. Gold English regimental rose pattern metal thread lace around front and top of collar and top of cuff. Gold Russia pattern metal thread braid on bottom edge of collar, each side of cuff lace forming an Austrian knot above and eyeloop below. Body lined with white Italian cloth, skirt lined with white wool cloth, collar lined with black corded silk. Collar badge shows the Dannebrog cross and ‘A’ (the cypher of HRH the Princess of Wales) intertwined and surmounted by a princess’s coronet, all in silver, gold, red and green metal thread and silk thread embroidery. Gilding metal buttons down front and on shoulders, bearing a die struck design of a Dannebrog bearing ‘1875’ (the date of the granting of the title to the regiment), intertwined with ‘A’ (the cypher of HRH the Princess of Wales) surmounted by her coronet, the whole above a scroll bearing ‘THE PRINCESS OF WALES’S OWN’. Shoulder buttons screw backed.