NAM.1986-07-13-1

Tunic, other ranks’, Prince Albert’s (Somersetshire Light Infantry), dated October 1906. Scarlet wool cloth with blue wool cloth pointed cuff and upright collar. Belt hook at each side waist. Collar fastens with a single hook, with collar badge on each front. Scarlet wool cloth scarlet shoulder straps, each bearing a metal shoulder title. White wool cloth piping, trimming left front edge, lower right front edge, skirt slashes and black pleat. Flat white wool worsted braid along top and front edges of collar, edges of shoulder straps and cuffs. Body lined with white flannel forming pocket on inside left breast and ticket pocket at right waist, collar lined with scarlet wool cloth, sleeves lined with white cotton. Brass drop shank buttons on front, skirt and shoulder, with die struck design of royal arms. Die cast brass shoulder title of a stringed bugle horn below which ‘SOMERSET’. Two brass die struck collar badges (not a pair) of a stringed bugle horn surmounted by a mural crown, the whole surmounted by a scroll bearing ‘JELLALABAD’.