Officer's full dress tunic - Prince of Wales Victorian Volunteer Light Horse - 1875

[slick_mick]

Officer's full dress tunic - Prince of Wales Victorian Volunteer Light Horse - 1875.

In 1862, the units of the Mounted Volunteer Corps in Victoria were formed into a single regiment known as the Victorian Volunteer Light Horse. This title changed again in 1863, to the Prince of Wales Victorian Volunteer Light Horse ( Hussars ). In 1870 a uniform was adopted that was based on the British 19th Hussars. Troops were based at various times at Geelong, Ballarat, Kyneton, Bendigo, Castlemaine and Dandenong, as well as metropolitan Melbourne. In 1885, most of the Cavalry were incorporated into a newly formed Victorian Mounted Rifles.

[Michael Reintjes]

..Fantastic Piece indeed Mick....just beautiful..

[slick_mick]

They certainly don't make uniforms now that way they did back then.

Mick