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hullo yes it was common for other Officers of other Regts and Corps to wear the embelishments of that unit if it is an old classic one the Household Brigade the MOs wear the uniform of that unit but wear a cocked hat.....the Household cavalry Medical Officers are appointed by the Silver stick and the Colonels of both Regts...after a period then granted to wear the the uniform with the RAMC badges in.....Now when I was with the Army Cadets which was the Hampshire Regt I chose to wear my JIMMY on permission from the SIGNALS oFFICER IN cHIEF...LIKE mONTY WHO WORE TWO CAP bADGES TAKE THE AIRBORNE WHO WORE THE MAROON BERET BUT KEEP THE rEGT CAP BADGES...as that unit was a classic TA unit..he wore that with pride saw a programe on him by the Prince of Wales....if you served in the Scotish Regts if you wished you could wear the headress of that Regt with you cap badge....saw the jimmy badge( Royal Signals) in many types of regt headress....lots of things are coming back of old times gone to remind the soldier of former Regts....so sad that most of the county Regts gone.....hope this helps.....see recent posts to you....
Maurice.....  (ex Royal signals...Sig to Lt. )  1961-1970 then rebadged the Royal Hampshire..1980-84 in the Cadets (staff)

no officers did wear boots but as officers had to buy kt not issued and so many were conscripted in many did not have the money or influence so yes many did wear puttees  but if not assigned to a unit the badge would have have been the coat of arms like the RSMs badge this was worn until the 60/70s as seen many in the Staff HQs especially in the Colchester Garrison as many staff were still the war time served and were not assigned to any unit. having the dres code for the Yorkshire Battlalion , and as a former officer the cap was barathea not serge for ORS. and officers from the victorian period to modern times are to have a regt tailor...who had to to follow the dress code for regts and corps.....all officers were given a book on dress codes for the day and evening includin the uniform..in my day if you could not afford the sword you went to the Adjt who issued with one the RSM usuall gave you sword drill for parades....Sandhurst is different today since the 70s, as mons finished and Sandhurst took over for all commissions. in my collection years ago had the regt officers cane with regt badge....now the household  cavalry officer have a silver topped cane as seen one at the funeral here...a Capt was carrying it in his dress service dress and others carried a regt riding crop.....yes badges were bronze  and some were black.....like the rifle regts the chaplains dept for one....for Northern Ireland in the 70s all badges were black for night patrols.....had many items in my collection including rare Celon planters uniform the badge were more than the uniform they were made of solid silver and the cap badge....the National Army musuem wanted it.....as they had no records of that unit or bades...that was an old boys club as most units were out there then....my Uncle Major Jack Barnard belong to the Burma forrest planters but went on to win the MC in Burma....
NOW IF YOU SEE MT OWN FATHER IN iNDIA AS AN OFFICER HE WAS THE MOST SCRUFFY OFFICER....
in the photographs he is wearing un orthodox uniform for the Indian Army as was the case.....as he never collected his medals I sent for them....and managed to get a cap badge of his unit in India....#
now to those photos have in my collection of old photos from the Victorian to WW1 all soldiers in a studio.. all posed.... the WW1 are the post card type ,the victorian are studio sepia type   including a large regt photo group....its the only thing I collect as it needs little space....yes had a victorian officer sword as well with bayonets of the period...but all gone now.....hate to say it but the cllection was mainly the German W2 period from SS to civillian stuff with medals knives sword etc.....used to be a civil war re-actor as well doing the shows and battles....

Thank you old rowley,

I read this with interest because I have just found out my Ancestors (not in the list) fought at Culloden

The information I have is: "In 1745 Theophilus Hearsey (a Cumberland Squire) took up arms for Prince Charles Edward Stuart and led his family, tenants and servants into the field.
Theophilus and his son were both present at Culloden and consequently attainted and their estates confiscated. They fled the country and joined exiled court on the continent."   

It appears that when proceedings against the Jacobites were relaxed they returned to England and became London Merchants and made their fortune (wish it had lasted  ).

What I find really strange is they went on to become generations of high ranking military officers in the British Army based in India 

Crystal 

re- my answer  most of the hearseys enlisted as ensigns and worked their way up into the ranks....there were many men of the hearsey s who served in the army both for the East India Company then the Indian Army some went to Burma where my Grandparents lived before fleeing Burma because of the Japonese invasion, they played a big part in the Indian mutinity where A general Hearsey and hisson Capt Andrew Hearsey disarmed the mutineers  there is an Indin film "Mangel Pandy"    the hearsey family was vast as most of them married met some of them on the reurn after the Partition of India. most were in the Indian Army and the Royal Signals....BAINS LEVISTON-ALLEN and a major who I met in training in Catterick camp in 1961 a Major late of the Indian Army  my late mother nee HEARSEY  her father was a senior burmese police officer in the burma police....my own Father an Englishman was an officer in the war time Indian army,,,another name is PURDY.....I have my Grandfathers features.....as my Aunt Elsie.....