Major-General's full dress coatee and epaulettes worn by HRH George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge, 1850 (c)

Prince George (1819-1904), a first cousin of Queen Victoria, had gained a solid grounding as a regimental officer before being promoted major-general on 7 May 1845. He succeeded as Duke of Cambridge in 1850. His uniform is of the general officer's full dress pattern of 1828-1855; the arrangement of gilt buttons in pairs and the width of embroidery on the cuffs is distinctive to a major-general. The epaulettes are of gold lace in a French check pattern, trimmed with gold round cord and boxed gold bullion tassels, but the general officer's rank insignia is absent from the straps. Cambridge was promoted lieutenant-general on 19 June 1854, by which time he was already in Turkey with the Army of the East and in command of the 1st Division.