The Redcoat

This East Surrey regiment tunic has been in our family since the 1960s and have found a photo of a Cpt R.King in the same uniform from the 1890s! 

My Granny Anni Lambie would regale me with stories as a child about an ancient ancestor who had worn it and had served in the Crimean War. However my uncle Drew confirmed that it was left behind at a party he had in the house in the 1960s, by his friend Paul Wade. As there was a branch of the East Surreys stationed in Glasgow in the 1890s, one wonders

if this is where it originated? Sadly we may never know, but nonetheless it is a much travelled and much treasured Lambie family heirloom, regardless of how it got there!