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Other ranks' forage cap worn by Pte William Taylor Rowley, D (Cambridge) Troop, 1st Huntingdonshire Light Horse Volunteers, 1870 (c). Blue wool cloth crown and sides with white pipe clayed wool cloth boss in centre of crown. White wool cloth piping around edge of crown. White pipeclayed wool cloth cap band. Black patented leather chin strap with three eyelets at one end, hook on left hand side of inside cap now absent. White leather head band. White, blue and pale blue wool cloth, worsted cord and thread, with design of the pale blue embroidered numeral ‘1st’ and entwined letters ‘MV’ upon the cap band. Above the cap band a white cloth ducal coronet trimmed with white round cord couching upon a shaped blue cloth ground. Black padded cotton drill lining. William Taylor Rowley was the elder brother of Smith Howlett Rowley, wealthy landownders and farmers from Histon, Cambridgeshire. The two brothers joined the Duke of Manchester’s Light horse volunteers around the time of its formation in 1860.