NAM.1978-02-37-33

Private, 9th (Queen’s Royal) Lancers, 1895 (c) - 1900, in mounted review order on horseback. Glass negative produced by W. Gregory & Co., London, and F. G. O. Stuart, 1895 (c). The private is pictured in mounted review order dress. This includes the Lancer cap, the design of which was based on the Polish four-cornered cap known as the czapka. It has a black leather skull and black patent leather peak with a band of gold lace around it. The upper part of the cap is made with ribbed cloth of regimental colour (dark blue) on four sides, and is topped with leather. The drooping plume is made of horse hair of regimental colour (black over white), with a brass boss where the plume attaches. The brass regimental plate is fixed on the lower part of the cap, with lion’s head bosses on each side, to which the chin chains are attached. The full dress tunic is dark blue with red facings: collar and pointed cuffs, piping around the edge of the tunic, and the plastron on the front. Yellow worsted shoulder cords are secured by two small regimental buttons. Yellow worsted cord cap lines hang around the neck. He has a white leather pouch belt and black pouch. Blue pantaloons with a double yellow stripe down the outside seam are worn tucked into riding boots with spurs attached. He wears white leather gauntlets. He is holding his lance, with its red over white pennon, and his sword hangs from the slings of his white sword belt. The horse has standard military tack, and a black lambskin saddlecloth. One of a collection of 280 glass negatives, associated with Gregory & Co., London, and F.G.O. Stuart, 1893 (c)-1900.