35th Sikhs, a British officer’s dress tunic as worn between 1903 and 1921

The officer’s scarlet tunic with yellow facings is in exceptionally good condition with its full complement of eight large buttons to the front and six to the tails. The epaulettes carry two Bath stars indicating a lieutenant and the padded interior carries a nametape E. G. Collings. The collar badges are steel coloured Sikh throwing quoits.The uniform is of a considerably larger size than most of the antique uniforms we find. In 1921 the regiment became the 10th Bn. 11th Sikh Regiment. Captain Ernest Gardiner Collings is recorded as being born c.1886 and dying in 1915.   jun2/4

Pwexonal Note: The main photograph shows the unitorm on a human acting as dummy to show the size. The person is 6ft 1in, waist 36ins, chest 44ins.