Officer's patrol jacket : Victorian Permanent Artillery

Dark blue superfine patrol jacket with stand and fall collar and a second stand collar of scarlet superfine edged with gold lace behind. The stand and fall collar, fronts, skirt edge and side vents all trimmed with 2.6cm wide black wool worsted braid. Dark blue shoulder straps trimmed with narrower wool braid, each bearing an embroidered gold bullion and velvet crown for the rank of major and a small fabric covered button. Cuffs are decorated with black wool braid crowsfeet. Fronts decorated with five slightly tapered rows of doubled black wool braid, each row ending in a crowsfoot with black netted olivet. The rows end at the centre front opening with loops on the left side and black netted olivets on the right. The jacket also fastens beneath with a series of ferrous metal hooks and eyes. To the side and just below the last row of braided decoration on each front is a horizontal welt pocket lined with glazed grey cotton twill and decorated with black braid that forms a crowsfoot at each end and an eye in the centre. Back seams of jacket are decorated similarly with doubled rows of braid beginning and ending in crowsfeet with two pairs of eyes between. Jacket and sleeves fully lined with black wool and cotton mixture of satin weave, quilted at the fronts. Concealed pocket inside the left breast. Embroidered maker's label at the back neck. Stand collar lined with scarlet superfine and neck fastened with two brass hooks and eyes.

Patrol jackets were worn by officers of both the artillery and rifle units when attending field activities such as encampments. This jacket is reputed to have been worn by a Major Clark(e). This may have been Major H A Clarke of the Metropolitan Field Artillery. The rank badge positioned on the shoulder strap dates this jacket from 1880. Before this the rank was denoted on the collar.