NAM.1985-05-36-1

Coatee, officers’, full dress, Royal Wiltshire Militia, 1850 (c). Scarlet cloth with blue wool cloth facings upright closed collar and slash cuffs. Double breasted. Four worked eyelets on each shoulder for attaching epaulettes (now absent). Silver wire thread acorn and oakleaf pattern embroidery. Scarlet wool cloth three pointed cuff slashes. White nun’s veiling turnback. Star-shaped tail ornament, with design of a red silk cross upon a silver wire ground, within a blue silk garter bearing the gold wire garter motto, with a blue silk scroll bearing the gold ‘ROYAL WILTSHIRE’ above the garter, the garter upon an eight pointed rayed star of gold wire and spangles, all upon a blue cloth ground. Ten silver half domed buttons down each front, two at back waist, four on each cuff slash and two on each front collar, with design of the royal cypher ‘VR’ surmounted by a monarchial crown, the title ‘ROYAL WILTSHIRE MILITIA’ forming a convex curve partially enclosing the cypher. Body and sleeves lined with drab brocade, tail lined with white nun’s veiling with vertical pocket on each tail lining, collar lined with black silk.