Fig.1. Musketeer, Royal Danish Infantry 1761.
Hat black with white lace, pompom and tassels, jacket in red with yellow collar, lapels, cuffs and turnbacks, white lace and buttons. Waistcoat and breeches are white, shoes, leggings, stock and hair bow black, buff leather straps and waistbelt, brass buckles, obsolete straight sword worn with brass hilt and tan scabbard.

Fig.2. Officer, Royal Danish Infantry 1761.
Hat black with silver lace, tassel, button and holding strap to black bow (for the musketeer the bow is not shown due to the head facing the wrong way, one would presume that it was black like the officer's), jacket scarlet with silver lace, waistcoat white with silver lace, breeches white, waistbelt in buff leather with silver lace edging and silver buckle, buttons are silver as is the sword hilt, gilt gorget, in centre is the Kings cypher in silver on a light blue enamelled base.

Fig.3. Officer, St. Thomas Land Militia 1816.
Hat black, gold lace and button, small black cockade, plume white over red, jacket dark blue, lapels are also dark blue, collar and cuffs scarlet, epaulettes, lace and buttons are in gold, breeches white, waistcoat black with gilt fittings, boots with silk tassels both in black.

Fig.4. Officer, Prince's Life Squadron, St. Thomas 1816.
Shako black with green cords and tassels, silver plate, black cockade, plume white over red. Jacket in dark green, silver buttons, collar, cuffs and cords black, shoulder wings in silver on a dark green base, waist-sash in crimson and yellow, overalls are grey with black knots and out-side leg seam lace, black leather reinforced overall bottoms.

Fig.5. Private, Regular West Indies Infantry 1826.( Winter Dress )
Hat black, a white hat band, pompon and metallic ornaments, cockade in red - white - red, shako cords in yellow inter-twined with red. Jacket red with collar, cuffs, lapels and epaulettes in dark blue, piping in white, buttons white, trousers dark blue, shoes and spats black, in Summer Dress it was the same except jacket and trousers were in white linen rather than red.

Danish West Indies: 1761 - 1916

Uniforms 1-5: 1761-1826
Uniforms 6-10: 1826-1916