Victorian Officer’s 9th Lancers Tunic – Colonel Mackenzie

£1,650.00

9th Lancers tunic is made of dark blue Melton cloth with scarlet and gold lace collar, cuffs, plastron and piping to back seams and edges of the skirts. Regimental buttons and plaited gold shoulder cords Beige quilted silk lining with makers label Hawkes and Co and named. Notes: Colonel James Alexander Francis Humberston Stewart-Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth 9 November 1847 – 3 March 1923 was a Scottish soldier, who was regarded by many as chief of Clan Mackenzie. Stewart-Mackenzie was the great-grandson of Francis Mackenzie, 1st Baron Seaforth, whose title had become extinct when his four sons all predeceased him. He was educated at Glenalmond College and in 1867 was commissioned into the 9th Lancers. He served for over thirty years, retiring as the regiment’s colonel. He fought at Maidan, Killa Kazi, Kabul, Sherpur and Kandahar in the Afghan War of 1878–1880. He then served as military secretary to Sir Mountstuart Grant Duff, Governor of Madras.

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