This illustration formed the top part of a large composite print of the Hampshire Carabiniers 1887. It demonstrates the two types of uniform worn at this time. The older style braided short jacket was worn for more formal parades as seen on the left. An officer rides at the front wearing a gold laced pouch-belt. He and the men have knee boots and breeches, and spiked helmets. They did not have plumes on the helmet until the mid 1890s. On the right of the picture are two privates on field day manoeuvres wearing the plain tunic also with spiked helmet knee boots and breeches. They hold their carbines which are normally kept in a leather bucket behind the right leg. The crossed carbines on the central shield are the recently issued Martini Henrys which replaced the Westley-Richards breech-loading carbines, first issued in 1870.
