NAM.1997-07-70-1

Coatee, field officer, full dress, Lieutenant-Colonel William Simson, North Lowland Fencibles, 1794-1802 Scarlet wool cloth coatee with long tail and cut-away front, white piping, green wool cloth cuffs and collar, and gilt metal buttons, each with a thistle flower and the unit’s initials, ‘N’, ‘’L’ and ‘F’, surmounted by a monarchial crown. The coat was purchased by Mr D K Mills of Accrington, Lancs from the Cook family of Fife in the early 1970s together with 1976-11-51, a coat of the 21st Light Dragoons which has been worn by a Captain William Simson 1782 (c). No one by the name of Cook served with the North Lowland Fencibles but a William Simson became the Lieutenant-Colonel 15 November 1794. Captain William Simson and Lieutenant-William Simson were one and the same person.