Jacket of the Roxburghshire Yeomanry

This jacket is from the Roxburghshire Yeomanry, a part-time, rural mounted force.

Roxburghshire Yeomanry - Yellow cloth frogged jacket

The government encouraged the raising of Yeomanry units, seeing them as more reliable and flexible than the urban, independent Volunteers. The units, recruited from local landowners and their tenants, were used as a means of policing and control.

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Online ID:	000-100-016-606-C
Image Rights Holder:	National Museums Scotland
Project:	0098: National Museums Scotland Project description \| View all records in project
Ref:	National Museums Scotland M.1954.388.1
Date:	18th/19th century
Material:	Cloth, yellow; frogged
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What:	Jacket
Subject:	Uniform : bodywear
Who:	Roxburghshire Yeomanry (British land forces) Sir John James Scott Douglas (Owner)
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