358 KANE’S LIST AND MACDONALD’S HISTORY OF DRESS. 
church of Inveresk, Musselburgh, to which place Ramsay’s mortal re¬ 
mains were removed from Waterloo. Major Cairnes had served with 
distinction at Copenhagen, Barossa, in several sieges and battles of the 
Peninsula and had been posted to T Troop as 2nd Captain in 1814; 
he was a man of extraordinary popularity and there exist most interest¬ 
ing and amusing letters written by him to various brother officers ; 
though only 29 years of age at the time of his death he had been on 
active service for nearly eight years. The third of this trio was a son 
of Sir William Robe (No. 654) and his was an even more remarkable 
record of service than that of Major Cairnes for he died on 19th June 
of wounds received at Waterloo, aged 24 years on his thirtieth battle¬ 
field. The Royal Artillery Institution numbers among its most pre¬ 
cious possessions a case containing the minatures of the two Robes 
surrounded by their respective medals and decorations. 
So recently as the 16th November, 1891, there passed away in the 
person of Major F. Bayly (No. 1473) an officer who had fought in the 
Peninsula from 1810 to 1814, in America in 1814 and who had accom¬ 
panied the Prussian army to France after Waterloo ; he is a connecting 
link of one life only between the lives of every officer now serving and 
that of Vaughan Lloyd (No. 241) who had fought at Minden. 
Plate XII. deserves special attention from the fact that the Rocket 
Brigade under the command of Captain Richard Bogue (No. 1015) 
was the only British force present at the battle of Leipzig on 18th 
October, 1813. Bogue was killed but the splendid services of the 
Rocket Brigade were acknowledged by the thanks of the Crown Prince 
of Sweden, conveyed to Lieutenant Fox Strangways (No. 1365) by 
Lieut.-General Sir C. Stewart who said, speaking of the use of the new 
Congreve Rockets, . . . “I felt great satisfaction at witnessing 
‘‘ this day, a species of improved warfare, the effects of which were truly 
“ astonishing and produced an impression upon the enemy of some- 
“ thing supernatural.” 
Plate XIII. is the last of a series which show the uniform through 
years of nearly continuous war and henceforth new conditions of service 
and thought came into play. 
I have previously pointed out how that prior to 1815 but small atten¬ 
tion was paid to the dress of officers ; the Duke of Wellington is believed 
to have had no prejudices in favour of uniformity of dress either of 
armies or of units composing those armies, so that in 1815 when the 
Allies commenced the occupation of France and of Paris in particular, 
officers of the British Army,with whom considerations of dress were 
but small, were brought into contact with officers of other European 
Armies and as their minds were no longer occupied with schemes of war 
each had ample opportunity to mutually study, copy or criticise the 
others dress. 
How far the British officer was affected by what he saw can be jud¬ 
ged by the caricature published by Fores in 1818, called f Military Dan¬ 
dies ’; there is a copy of it in the Royal Artillery Institution and though 
it may be said that caricature is at best a distortion of history the fact 
remains that did no tendency towards the exaggeration depicted exist 
the caricature would be pointless. 
