Mess jacket, officers’, 20th Madras Native Infantry, worn by Hon Maj Gen John Duncan Campbell Wallace, 1870-1875.
Scarlet wool cloth.

collar: gilt hook and eye and gold Russia braid loop at front base. 
Braid: Note two bands of braid all round collar 1/4 in apart with a band of eyeloops at centre. Two bands on cuff, the upper band forming an Austrian knot and the lower band an elongated crowsfoot at point. Above and below the bands of lace, leaving the knot and crowsfoot free, a row of eyeloops. Front, lower and back edges trimmed with braid. 

button shoulder: within a scalloped border a laurel wreath, within which a circlet bearing the battle honours: SERINGAPATAM; SHOLINGHUR. Within the circlet the Roman numeral: XX upon the hatched ground. Above the circlet a monarchial crown.