NAM.1986-12-29-1

Tunic, officers’, full dress, originally Royal Dublin Fusiliers, facings altered to East Yorkshire Regiment, worn by J McD Haskard, 1900-1919. Scarlet wool cloth with white wool cloth upright collar and pointed cuffs. Single breasted. Fastens with eight buttons at front. Worked loops for medals on left breast (now absent). Fastens with bar and loop fitting at inside waist. Six buttons on back skirt. Collar lined with black corded silk and fastens with a bar and loop fitting at front. Gold metal thread and mohair black lace, in rose edged with black worm pattern (black worm worn in memory of Wolfe’s death at Quebec), around front and top of collar and top of cuff. Gold metal thread Russia pattern braid along lower edge of collar and each side of lace on cuff, forming an Austrian knot above and an eye loop below. White wool cloth piping along top and front of collar, front of tunic edges and on closing seam on skirt back with a three pointed slash at each side. Body lined with white corded silk, skirt and sleeves lined with white cotton cloth. Gilt metal and silver plated metal half domed front and skirt buttons, with die struck and relief obverse design of a silver rose within a gilt laurel wreath, the wreath upon a gilt eight pointed rayed star, with Prince of Wales’s plumes on reverse. Gilt metal and silver plated half domed screw shoulder buttons, with die struck and relief obverse design of a rose within a laurel wreath, the wreath upon a gilt eight pointed rayed star, with screw fitting on reverse. Gilt metal, silver plate and black enamel collar badge with split pin fitting on reverse and obverse die struck design of a silver rose upon a black ground within a gilt laurel wreath, the wreath upon a gilt eight pointed rayed star.

Plains of Abraham, Battle of the, 1759 (Seven Years War, North America 1756-1763)