coatee, coatee
Accession Number

NAM.1972-03-31-1

Description

Coatee, Coquetdale Rangers Yeomanry Cavalry, Northumberland, 1820 (c). Single breasted scarlet wool cloth with green wool facings, upright collar and ten gilt buttons arranged in pairs, with worked loops. Tail ornaments comprise the Price of Wales’s plumes in silver metal thread. Lined in white wool flannel to the tails and shaloon in the bodice. This unit was formed during the Napoleonic wars, and prior to the establishment of the Northumberland (Hussars) Yeomanry Cavalry, which was authorised and established six troops in 1819, initially adopting Light Dragoon pattern uniform.