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| Accession number | 912L : 2440/3 |
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1751 20 Serjeants , Corporals and Private Men . knee . Drummers , Trumpeters and Hautbois . Housings and Holster - caps . Standards and Guidons . NINTH REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS.¹ [ 9TH QUEEN'S ROYAL LANCERS . ] [ FROM ROYAL WARRANT , DATED 1 JULY , 1751. ] Facings and Lapells - Buff colour , without lapells . Button - holes and how the buttons are set on - White . Two and two . Waistcoats and Breeches - Buff colour . Hat - Lace - Silver . tails . Colour Facing and lining of the coats - Buff colour , with red . Waistcoats and Breeches - Red . Lace - White , with a blue stripe . Buff Colour , with white lace and blue stripe . Badge - IX . D. HISTORICAL RECORD OF Colour of the 2nd and 3rd Standard or Guidon - Buff colour . Embroidery on the three Standards - Silver . Fringe on the three Standards - Silver and blue . Badge on the 2nd and 3rd Standard or Guidon - IX . D. 1768. 28 May . 1769. 24 May . Officers looped with a narrow silver braid like the men's , turned up with a small buff cuff and narrow buff cape ; buff lining and an epaulette ; buff waistcoat and buff leather breeches ; buttons numbered . INSPECTION RETURNS . Officers ' buttons not yet numbered . 43 long 1774. 28 May . Red , faced light buff , button - holes silver . 1788. 4 June . Hats not proper cock and too small . Swords in waist - belts and not carried in shoulder cross - belts according to order . 1789. 9 June . 2 Standards , 1771. Furniture , 1784 . 1790. 16 June . Swords too short , and very different from the new pattern lately ordered . 1792. 4 June . No music . 1794 . 29 August . Housings , 1793 . COATS , Scarlet ; double - breasted ; without lappels ; lined with buff ; slit sleeves , turned up with buff ; the button - holes ornamented with narrow white lace ; the buttons of white metal , set on two and two ; a long slash pocket in each skirt , and a white worsted aiguillette on the right shoulder . WAISTCOAT AND BREECHES , -buff colour . HATS , three - cornered cocked - hats , bound with silver lace , and ornamented with a white metal loop and a black cockade . BOOTS , of jacked leather , reaching to the CLOAKS , of scarlet cloth , with a buff cape , and lined with buff shalloon ; the buttons set on two and two upon white frogs or loops , with a blue stripe down the centre . HORSE FURNITURE , -of buff cloth ; the holster caps and housings having a border of white lace , with a blue stripe down the centre ; IX . D. em broidered upon the housings on a red ground , within a wreath of roses and thistles ; G.R. em broidered on the holster caps , with a crown over it and IX : D. underneath . II . THE NINTH LANCERS . 21 OFFICERS , —distinguished by silver lace ; their 1751 coats and waistcoats bound with silver embroidery ; the button - holes worked with silver ; and a crim son silk sash worn across the left shoulder . QUARTER - MASTERS , -to wear a crimson sash round the waist . SERJEANTS , to have narrow silver lace on the cuffs , pockets , and shoulder straps ; silver arguil lettes ; and buff and blue worsted sashes tied round the waist . DRUMMERS AND HAUTBOYS , -clothed in buff , lined and turned up with red , and ornamented with white lace , having a blue stripe down the centre ; red waistcoats and breeches . GUIDONS , the first , or King's , guidon to be of crimson silk , embroidered and fringed with gold and silver ; in the centre the rose and thistle con joined , and crown over them , with the motto Dieu et mon droit underneath ; the white horse in a compartment in the first and fourth corners , and IX . D. in silver characters on a buff ground in a compartment in the second and third corners . The second and third guidons to be of buff silk ; in the centre IX . D. in silver characters on a 912L : 2440/3 912L : 2440/3 2/07777216 B OFFICER . Ere GB XVIII DRAGOONS 1751 . 7 1751 6 |
