mess vest, mess vest
Accession Number

NAM.1986-04-7-3

Description

Mess vest, officers’, Alexandra Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment) (1st Bn), worn by Lt Col C H de St P Bunbury, 1905 (c). Green wool cloth body with green Italian cloth back and strap, with brass gate buckle. A pocket on each front. Gold metal thread Russia pattern braid all round neck, front and lower edges and forming a continuous pattern of eyeloops along these edges and four crows feet above, below and each side of the pocket. White cotton lining.