This unidentified officer is in the expensive dress uniform worn by British officers of the Bengal Light Cavalry. His regiment is not specified but as officers were often transferred from one BLC regiment to another, it was helpful that all the uniforms were of similar pattern. The French grey jacket has distinctive silver braiding across the chest, which, in the 1830s, formed wavy lines. The orange collar and cuffs were liberally decorated with silver Russia braid, with no apparent difference between the lower and higher ranks. His pouch-belt is laced with silver and showed orange edges and centre stripe. His shako has the Maltese cross badge adopted in 1835 and is decorated with a gold plaited festoon on the front and gild cord cap-lines which hooked onto the front of the jacket.
The plume on the top of the shako is a black drooping horsehair. His waist girdle is made up of three stripes of gold lace with crimson in between. His dress belts around his waist are of similar pattern to his pouch-belt, silver and orange. They support a sword and a sabretache. The trousers are dark blue with a silver stripe down the side. In the 1840s some paintings and prints show a double silver stripe. Also in the 1840s the girdle was replaced by a gold and crimson barrel sash.
