If only you lot would try and read some Hardy (Thomas). In chapter I of the Trumpet Major we have an exact description of their uniforms, and we learn that they are called 'The York Hussars', (foreigners to a man). Can't confirm they were at Radipole Barracks though. Sometimes hard going to read, but Dorset-wise there ain't no better social historian than old Tom (I am allowed this familiarity because I have read all his novels!!). Geoff