jacket

Uniform jacket, Otamatea Mounted Rifles, B Squadron, 3rd Regiment Auckland Mounted Rifle Volunteers, circa 1902

Belonged to Lieutenant Felix Gill

dark green jacket, single-breasted with stand-up collar; waisted; unhemmed skirt; black belt-hooks either side; with red piping at front and on skirt at back; gold braid trimming around collar, cuffs and shoulder straps

collar: stand-up collar with leather strap inside; metallic gold braid with attached embroideredc metallic badge on red ground

sleeve cuffs: Austrian knot in gold braid

shouldrer5 straps: green fabric with gold braid around

buttons:

New Zealand Volunteers buttons with four stars at centre: gilt: eight above waistliine down front, two at back, two on shoulder straps

badges:

rank badge: metallic star on shoulder straps

regimental: metallic posthorn badges on red fabric attached to collar

titles: letters NZ on shoulder straps

label: machine embroidered label inside neck: KAIAPOIB / WOOLLEN MANUF. CO LTD / CHRISTCHURCH