Full dress officer’s tunic, 56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force), worn by Lt Col Henry Champion de Crespigny, 1912-1920.

Made by Ranken and Company, Calcutta, Simla, Lahore and Rawal Pindi, 1911

Drab wool cloth with black velvet upright closed collar and pointed Austrian knot cuffs. Single breasted, frogged. Drab mohair lace, drab Russia pattern braid. Drab silk net domed buttons at back and front, drab silk net ball buttons at shoulder. Drab silk net olivette. Drab silk square cord. Body lined with drab Italian cloth, skirt lined with drab silk, sleeves lined with drab nun’s veiling, collar lined with black Italian cloth with stock patch of black Italian cloth.