OR1

British Infantry, skirmish line in action, coatees, peaked Kilmarnocks, regulation crossbelt equipment, blanket packs, P1842 percussion muskets. (8 different figs, split 4/4 between kneeling and standing poses).

Particularly suited for the 43rd (The Monmouthshire) Regiment (Light Infantry) in Southern Africa in 1852. Note that the 43rd removed the light infantry wings from its coatees at this time. Many of the line regiments in South Africa similarly removed their shoulder straps when taking the field. The 43rd LI fought against the amaXhosa in the Eastern Cape (see our 'Waterkloof' Range) during the second year of the 8th Cape Frontier War and against the Basotho at the Battle of Berea. The regiment was unusual, amongst all the others involved in the 8th CFW in adhering so strictly to regulation equipment. Other units soon adopted locally made waistbelts, with belly-box pouches and slip on bayonet frogs, enabling the regulation bayonet belt (the right-shoulder crossbelt) to be dropped. That said the 6th (The Royal 1st Warwickshire) Regiment and the 91st (The Argyllshire) Regiment are likely to have looked much like the 43rd in the early actions of the 8th CFW. We do not know for sure whether or not the 45th and 91st Regiments wore peaks on their Kilmarnocks at the Battle of Boomplaats, during the Pretorius Rebellion of 1848 in the Orange River Sovereignty, but, that one area of uncertainty aside, the figures would otherwise be suitable for Boomplaats. We have a parallel code, OR 11, (scroll down), in which the figures do not have peaks on their Kilmarnocks and their wool-tufted shoulder straps are still in place.