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[General Slade]

The old Blandford uniform guides might be useful to you in your project.  One with the snappy title “Cavalry Uniforms of Britain and the Commonwealth including other Mounted Troops” written by Robert & Christopher Wilkinson-Latham and illustrated by Jack Cassin-Scott includes plates illustrating the uniforms of such stalwart bodies of men as the South Salopian Yeomanry in 1842 and the Taplow Lancers in 1870. There are a couple of companion books on infantry uniforms by the same authors but I don’t have those so I don’t know whether they cover the more esoteric elements of the British army.