Beautiful Original Victorian Royal Fusiliers Volunteer Battalion Lieutenant's Scarlet Undress Shell Jacket
On the shoulders it has silvered rope shoulder boards and with rank pips for a Lieutenant.
Victorian pewter / white metal Royal Fusiliers buttons securing the shoulder boards.
Jacket has very dark blue / black collar and cuffs facings with silver lace edgings and with Austrian knots to the cuffs. The silver lace denoting a volunteer battalion as per his Service history below
Lovely gilt metal and bullion wire Royal Fusiliers badges to the collar.
The jacket and fastens with hook and eye fixings sitting behind metal shell beads.
Name label to H R B (Henry Richard Belcher) Hickman in the collar.
Jacket has a beautiful heavily padded crimson lining.
Jacket condition is generally good with a small number of small moth holes and trails as pictured. Some small areas of looseness to the silver edging thread on the front and collar. Some dark stains on the inside of one cuff.
Chest Size is small approx 35 inches. Armpit to armpit measurement is 17.5 inches. Armpit to cuff is 19 inches
Henry Richard Belcher Hickman
Born: 11 April 1866.
Attended Christ Church, Oxford University; matriculated 10 October 1884, aged 18, and took his BA in 1888.
He subsequently qualified in medicine at St George's Hospital, becoming MB BCh in 1894 and MRCS/LRCP in 1894. He was an ophthalmic surgeon.
He served with the Oxford University Rifles Volunteers, part of the Oxfordshire Light Infantry, and subsequently with the 1st Volunteer Battalion Royal Fusiliers.
During WWI he commanded the Chesham Company of the Buckinghamshire Reserve Regiment.
The London Gazette confirms that Captain Henry Richard Belcher Hickman was appointed second-in-command of the 4th Volunteer Battalion, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry, effective 31 August 1918.
