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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Subaltern, South Staffordshire Regiment, 1925
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in 1881 the South Staffordshire became the Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s); in 2007 it became the Mercian Regiment – MERC (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, Royal Ulster Rifles, 1939
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From 1881 the Royal Irish Rifles; from 1921 Royal Ulster Rifles; from 1992 Royal Irish Regiment – R IRISH (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)
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Subaltern, Royal Sussex Regiment, 1959
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From 1701 35th (Royal Sussex) Foot; from 1881 Royal Sussex; from 1992 Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment – PWRR (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)
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Captain, Rifle Brigade, 1959
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from 1800 the Rifle Brigade; from 1966 Royal Green Jackets; 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, Scots Guards, 1959
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1642 Marquis of Argyll’s Royal; 1660 Scottish Footguards – Third Foot Guards; 1877 Scots Guards – SG

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;
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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.

Subaltern, South Staffordshire Regiment, 1925

Subaltern, Royal Ulster Rifles, 1939

Subaltern, Royal Sussex Regiment, 1959

Captain, Rifle Brigade, 1959

Captain, Scots Guards, 1959

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.