
Sergeant Major Samuel Cole,
RE |
The
tunic is scarlet with blue velvet facing and gold lace.
The trousers are blue. His shoulder boards are gold lace
RE officers pattern. His forage cap --on the table by
his right hand--is gold lace.
The six
medals are, from left to right: the Baltic Medal, the 5th
Class of the French Legion of Honour, the Crimea Medal with
the Sebastopol clasp, the Distinguished Conduct Medal, the
Turkish Crimea Medal, and the Army long Service and Good
Conduct Medal. |
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Captain Frederic Edward Blackett Beaumont,
Royal Engineers. |
Since the
photograph dates post-1861 (from the forage cap design),
Beaumont must be a Captain. A Captain's rank insignia
consists of a crown and star on the collar. Only the crown
is visible in the photograph, with the star being covered by
Beaumont's rather luxurious whiskers. Beaumont is wearing an
1857 pattern single-breasted tunic of scarlet cloth edged with
blue velvet. The collars and cuffs are of garter blue
velvet with a round back gold cord on the edge of the collar and
collar seam. The shoulder knots are round back gold cord
with a triple twist and silver embroidered grenades. |

The medals
worn by Beaumont are the Indian Mutiny Medal with one clasp and
the Turkish Crimea Medal with ring suspender. |
The trousers are dark blue
with a gold lace stripe of the Corps pattern, 1-3/4 inches wide,
down the outer seam.
The forage cap is of
blue cloth with a horizontal projecting peak (1861 pattern) and
a band of gold lace, 1-3/4 inches wide of the Corps pattern.
The cap appears to be missing the gold netted button in the
centre of the crown.
The pouch belt is of
Russia leather, 2 inches wide, with one stripe of gold
embroidery 3/8-inch wide on either edge and one wavy stripe (in
a scroll) down the centre.
The sword belt, worn
over the tunic, is of Russia leather, 1-1/2 inches wide, with
two stripes of gold embroidery 1/4-inch wide, plain gilt
buckles, and a gilt waistbelt clasp with the Corps of Royal
Engineers' device in silver.
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His sword is the
regulation pattern blade for Infantry, 32-1/2 inches long by
1-1/8 inches wide, hilt of rolled metal, gilt, scroll pattern,
pierced and engraved. The sword knot is a round gold cord with
acorn. |
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General Sir James
Frankfort Manners Browne, K.C.B.
Royal Engineers. |
In the photograph, Browne is
wearing the 1857 pattern full dress uniform of a Lieutenant
Colonel of Engineers serving with troops, as denoted by the 1857
pattern busby on the table.
The tunic is of scarlet cloth
edged with blue velvet, single-breasted, with buttons 2 inches
apart. The collar and cuffs are also of blue velvet.
There is a round back gold cord on the edge of the collar and
collar seam with his badge of rank (a crown) in silver
embroidery on the collar. The shoulder knot is of round
back gold cord with a triple twist and silver embroidered
grenade.
The busby is of picked
seal skin, 8 inches high in front and 9-1/2 inches high in back,
with a light blue bag hanging over the right side and hooked
down to the busby. The busby has a leather chin strap, and
a gilt grenade on the left side to hold the 6-inch white goat's
hair plume.
The trousers are dark
blue with a scarlet stripe, rather than the regulation gold lace
stripe, down the outer seam.
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General Sir
James Frankfort Manners Browne is wearing the Crimea Medal
with Sebastopol clasp, the Sardinian Al-Valour Militare and
Turkish Crimea medals, and the Turkish Order of Medjidie (5th
Class). |
The sword is the regulation pattern blade for infantry, 32-1/2
inches long by 1-1/8 inches wide, with a hilt of rolled gilt
metal, with a scroll pattern, pierced and engraved. The
sword is in a brass scabbard and the sword knot is of round gold
cord with an acorn tip. |
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Colonel
Willoughby Digby Marsh, RE |
Marsh is
wearing the 1857 pattern waistcoat, trousers, and frock coat,
with an 1861 pattern forage cap. |

Colonel
Willoughby Digby Marsh, RE, his wife, and his daughter.
c. 1870
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The
waistcoat is of scarlet cloth, single-breasted, hook-and-eye
design, with gilt studs down the front; plain gold braid all
round on the collar and seam. The pockets on the waistcoat
(which cannot be seen in the photograph) are edged top and
bottom with gold braid with a crow's foot at each end and a
treble twist in the centre.
The
trousers are dark blue with a scarlet stripe 1-3/4 inches wide
down the outer seam.
The frock
coat is of dark blue cloth, single-breasted, with a rolling
collar and hook-and-eyes. The coat has eight loops of
3/4-inch mohair braid down the front, and two rows of nettled
barrel buttons 1-1/8 inch long on each side.
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The forage
cap is of dark blue cloth with a gold netted button in the
centre of the crown, which is in eight parts and edged with
scarlet piping. The cap has a band of gold lace 1-3/4
inches wide of the Corps pattern and a horizontal projecting
peak. This style of peaked forage cap was introduced into
the Royal Engineers in 1861. |
Dress
Regulations for this period specify that "the frock coat to
be worn always with scarlet waistcoat ... and forage cap on
regimental courts-martial, courts of inquiry, and committees,
inspection of barracks, etc., and as a common dress in
quarters." |
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http://www.members.dca.net/fbl/pmarshwd.html |

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The 26th
Company RE
during their construction of Fort Weymouth, one of the Coastal
Fortifications that were built in England during the French
Invasion scare of 1859-69 in England |

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This group of Royal Engineers (the Royal Sappers and Miners
became a part of the Royal Engineers in 1856) has a cross section of
young soldiers to some of the oldest, gnarled veterans of the
Crimea. All are wearing forage caps, those of the NCOs having
a peak. |

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above, left, Major General H. Sandham, Director of the
Royal Engineer Establishment, c 1860, wearing the undress frock coat.
This garment was worn with the scarlet waistcoat showing at the top
above the lapels. Above right, the scarlet shell jacket worn as
a mess kit with scarlet waistcoat and gold-laced trousers, c. 1857.
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