Victorian era military

Victorian Soldiers CDV, Antique Photo of two Men in Uniform ca. 1880

I saw this on Pinterest. I thought it was interesting and should share it. I don't ever recall of seeing a woman as a naval officer before and I'd like...

I promised to send another police sword. This is the pattern for Thames River Police from 1798 and for the London Metropolitan Police from 1829. Unlike the Counties pattern, it is longer, not so curved and has bars on the guard. This is dated 1867 - when the Met. ordered new weapons for the Irish...

The uniform regulations of 19 February 1841 were the first to include a section on the dress of enlisted personnel. The section on the men was short and most general without a description of the clothing, so the previous uniforms, made up from physical samples to be seen at the navy yards, remained in use with only slight style modifications. The style of the officers’ full dress coat was changed and now buttoned across the chest, the buttons being in parallel rows. The undress coat was…

Royal Navy. Mate, 2ns Class Boy, Commodore. 1849

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Over the years, in the course of accumulating images for my study of Derbyshire photographers, I've come across a number of portraits of men wearing military uniforms. Such uniforms present a valuable aid in the dating of photographs, itself an important tool in the identification of the subject of a portrait, but my lack of knowledge of this topic resulted in my leaving many of the pre-Great War era images in the "too hard" basket. My early efforts at identifying uniforms of regular…