1850-1960

These prints were published in 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn and drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman, Royal Corps of Signals (1910-1982). They are 24.5 x 37.5 cm (9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″) on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm2 faced in light greyish blue (RGB: d4e1e8), backed in white. Shown here are scans of the prints.
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Private, 34th Foot, 1854 (Border Regiment)
£12.00
Raised 1702, merged 1881 with the 55^thto form the Border Regiment; 2004 merged to form Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s Lancashire and Border)– LANCS (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Field Officer, 39th Foot, 1854 (Dorsetshire Regiment)
£12.00
Raised 1689 became the Dorsetshires then the Devon & Dorsets before merging into The Rifles in 2007– RIFLES (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Captain, 17th Foot, 1856 (Leicestershire Regiment)

Raised 1688; in 1881 became Leicestershire Regiment, in 1964 merged to form Royal Anglian Regiment – R ANGLIAN (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Private, Coldstream Guards (1856)

Raised as Monck’s Foot 1650; renamed Coldstream Foot 1670; since 1855 the Coldstream Guards – COLDM GDS (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Officer, 1st European Bengal Fusiliers, 1858 (Munster Fusiliers)
£12.00
Raised 1752; from 1881 the Royal Munster Fusiliers; disbanded 1922 following Irish independence (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

Published 1970 © Hugh Evelyn Limited; artist Colonel P.H. Smitherman (1910-1982);
c. 24 x 37 cm (9″ x 14″) medium cardstock 144 g/sm² in light greyish blue Hex: d4e1e8;
Shown here is a scan of the print.
This is a STANDARD sized print; see mail costs at Shipping & Returns.

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Major, 10th Foot, 1864 (Lincolnshire Regiment)
£12.00
Raised 1685; from 1881 the Lincolnshire Regiment; from 1960 2nd East Anglian and from 1964 the Royal Anglian Regiment – R ANGLIAN (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Lt-Col 68th (Durham) Lt Infantry, 1870
£12.00
Raised in 1756 as 23^rd Foot; from 1881 the Durham Light Infantry; in 1968 The Light Infantry and from 2007 The Rifles – RIFLES (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Captain, Devonshire Regiment, 1896
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Raised 1667; from1881 the Devonshire Regiment; from 1958 the Devon and Dorsets; from 2007 The Rifles – RIFLES (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Captain, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, 1897

Duke of Cornwall’s Lt Infantry; from 1959 Somerset and Cornwall Lt Infantry; from 1966 The Light Infantry; from 2007 The Rifles- RIFLES (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns

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Captain, Coldstream Guards, 1900
£12.00
Raised 1650 as Monck’s Foot; from1670 Coldstream Foot; from 1855 Coldstream Guards – COLDM GDS (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Sergeant, Irish Guards, 1901
£12.00
Founded 1900 the Irish Guards – IG (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Sergeant, Grenadier Guards, 1901
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Founded 1656 as Lord Wentworth’s Regiment; from 1665 1st Regiment of Foot Guards; from 1815 Grenadier Guards – GREN GDS (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Major, Irish Guards, 1901

Raised 1900 Irish Guards – IG (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Subaltern, Lancashire Fusiliers, 1914
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Raised 1688, from 1881 Lancashire Fusiliers; from1968 Royal Regiment of Fusiliers – FUSILIERS (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns.

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Regimental Sergeant Major, Welsh Guards (1920)

Raised 1915 Welsh Guards – WG (scroll down for a more detailed Description)

Published 1970 by © Hugh Evelyn Limited; drawn by Colonel Philip Henry Smitherman (1910-1982), Royal Corps of Signals
Size: c. 24.5 x 37.5 cm [9 ½ ″ x 14 ½ ″] (may vary slightly from printers’ cut 50 years ago)
Printed on on medium cardstock weighing 144 g/sm²faced in light greyish blue (RGB c. d4e1e8)
Print is STANDARD size – shipping is the same for 1 to 10 prints (based on largest print size in your order) – see Shipping & Returns

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Crimea to Cyprus (1850-1960)

During the forty years of peace before Crimea the dress of the army had grown ornate, elaborate and impractical. The British infantry went to the Crimea dressed in tight coatees, those of the officers ornamented with heavy gold epaulettes and wearing cumbersome shakos which were universally disliked. During the war the worst defects of this uniform were remedied.

The coatee was replaced by a looser tunic, epaulettes abolished with the loops of white tape which ornamented the coatees of the rank and file. The shako was replaced by a smaller one – scarcely more popular. Shakos were hardly worn in Crimea, instead used as flower-pots or draught excluders. Most photographs of Crimea show soldiers wearing undress caps even on full-dress occasions.

Up to Crimea a battle was a full-dress occasion, and full dress was intended to be a battledress. Some more ornate items were sometimes removed but for a set battle out came the gold-lace. Crimean was the last to which this applied.
In India at this time khaki, or dust-coloured uniform appeared. The Indian Mutiny of 1857 saw many Indian regiments, raised to put down the Mutiny, clothed in khaki. When later mustered into the regular Indian Army khaki was their ceremonial and their battledress. Khaki was first worn by the regular British Army during the fighting to suppress the Mutiny.

Red coats had many critics. The 60^th Rifles and the Rifle Brigade had always been dressed in green, no doubt to aid concealment in their role as skirmishers. Lord Elcho, who raised what is now the London Scottish in 1858, dressed them in a colour similar to khaki.
After Crimea regiments were distinguished by the colour of their facings and their badges and by virtually nothing else. But the red coat died hard: on home manoeuvres and in barracks line infantry wore red ‘jumpers’, a red serge coat; the foot guards wore either short white jackets, or full-dress tunics.

In India, after the Mutiny, khaki was worn on manoeuvres; in cold weather red was worn for walking out. To this day, every old garrison town in the subcontinent has its ‘lal kurti bazaar’, or red-coat shopping area, which has not seen a red coat for 100 years or more.
Infantrymen were progressively better housed, fed, and generally cared for. By the time of Crimea they were housed in proper barracks at home, but on active service they were neglected largely through inefficiency. The efforts of Florence Nightingale in the Crimea began a general overhaul of the supporting services of the army which have ensured that now the British soldier is as well cared for in the field as any other soldier in the world.

Like all Britons the British soldier likes to feel he is part of an old-established concern, and he works the better with that feeling. The preservation of tradition, even if it is only in some minor item of dress, is an important matter and some thought devoted to this preservation will reap its reward when the British infantryman is again asked, as he will be, to stand between the country and its enemies.

1850-1960

Private, 34th Foot, 1854 (Border Regiment)

Field Officer, 39th Foot, 1854 (Dorsetshire Regiment)

Captain, 17th Foot, 1856 (Leicestershire Regiment)

Private, Coldstream Guards (1856)

Officer, 1st European Bengal Fusiliers, 1858 (Munster Fusiliers)

Published 1970 © Hugh Evelyn Limited; artist Colonel P.H. Smitherman (1910-1982);
c. 24 x 37 cm (9″ x 14″) medium cardstock 144 g/sm² in light greyish blue Hex: d4e1e8;
Shown here is a scan of the print.
This is a STANDARD sized print; see mail costs at Shipping & Returns.

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Major, 10th Foot, 1864 (Lincolnshire Regiment)

Lt-Col 68th (Durham) Lt Infantry, 1870

Captain, Devonshire Regiment, 1896

Captain, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, 1897

Captain, Coldstream Guards, 1900

Sergeant, Irish Guards, 1901

Sergeant, Grenadier Guards, 1901

Major, Irish Guards, 1901

Subaltern, Lancashire Fusiliers, 1914

Regimental Sergeant Major, Welsh Guards (1920)

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Published 1970 © Hugh Evelyn Limited; artist Colonel P.H. Smitherman (1910-1982);c. 24 x 37 cm (9″ x 14″) medium cardstock 144 g/sm² in light greyish blue Hex: d4e1e8;Shown here is a scan of the print. This is a STANDARD sized print; see mail costs at Shipping & Returns.

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Published 1970 © Hugh Evelyn Limited; artist Colonel P.H. Smitherman (1910-1982);
c. 24 x 37 cm (9″ x 14″) medium cardstock 144 g/sm² in light greyish blue Hex: d4e1e8;
Shown here is a scan of the print.
This is a STANDARD sized print; see mail costs at Shipping & Returns.