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The left image above the Infantry and Corp of Drums are wearing the uniform of 1830/40. Tunics are cut to the double-breasted, tail-coated and high collared Prussian design that was adopted by the British Army after the battle of Waterloo. These are worn with the usual navy blue serge trousers with a single red stripe, or when in summer rig, with white duck trousers. 

Headgear is the bell-topped shako and the shako plate is a copy of the regulation pattern of the day, but with the Guard's own "City of Portsmouth" device surmounting the outline of Fort Cumberland.

 

Following the discomfort experienced by troops in the Crimean War, a more practical tunic was introduced

So in the right-hand image we wear the later 1860 single breasted uniform with the later pattern shako.

 

Each Infantry man is equipped with a muzzle-loading percussion musket of British or Indian origin. 

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