Descriptions of some Danish Colonial uniforms worn in the West Indies and not depicted.

Volunteer of the St. Jan Foot Militia, about 1830

Russian-style (Kiwer) 1815, Black shako with white, dark green-topped plume, the Danish Cross emblem brass, with yellow bands and red cords. Dark green frock coat with red collar, lapels, turnbacks and pointed cuffs, dark green epaullets with red crescents and lining, white trousers and gaiters, black shoes. Black leather crossbelts with an infantry saber,musket, bayonet and a cartridge pouch.

Infantry private, 1837 (Collection of Chr. Brunn, Copenhagen).

Shapska with a dark blue, white-rimmed top part with a white cord and an oval Danish cockade (white cross on a red, white-rimmed field), the skull part and the visor black the latter with a white rim. Red frock coat with white turnbacks, buttons and piping along the single line of buttons at the fore, blue, white-bordered collar and epaullets without fringes and like pointed cuffs. White breast cords and crossbelts, white long trousers and gaiters beneath black shoes, as weapons just a musket with a bayonet.

Infantry private, 1880.

White pith helmet with white metal rounded spike and eight-pointed star aswell as with a black visor. Pocketless white single-breasted jacket with shoulderflaps of the same with a white :metal company number on these and red stiff collar and pointed cuffs. White long trousers, black shoes. Black leather waistbelt with a French-type bayonet, Remington single-shot 1867 rifle.

King's Militia Corps, 1907-1917.

Gendarmery helmet. Single-breasted (buttons hidden) khaki tunic with pointed cuffs of the same and two breast pockets, red, yellow-trimmed stiff collar and shoulderflaps, red piping to the cuffs. Baggy khaki breeches with a broad red band on either outer seam. Khaki canvas knee-length gaiters, black shoes. Men had khaki fabric waistbelts, officers leather ones with an attached sabre. Rank badges for n.c.o.'s upward pointing red chevrons on either upper sleeve, for officers sleeve hussar knots like in the French Light Cavalry of the period.

Sources

Messrs. J.Paulsen and Arne Hoff of the Arsenal Museum (Tojhusmuseet) in Copenhagan,
Lieut.Col. Th. Hojland-Christensen, Chief of the Danish Army Archives (Haerensarkiv),
Messrs. Svend Aakjaer and J.O. Bro-Jorgensen of the Danish Imperial Archives (Rigsarkivet)
Major Th. Czjzek von Zeilau, (ret.) a Czech nobleman and onetime officer in the Danish West Indies to whom all the author of this only concise history of the Danish Colonial troops in the Jest Indies is greatly indebted for the help selflessly rendered.

Danish Colonial Troops in the West Indies 1666-1917

Army Period, 1666-1907
Constabulary Period: 1907-1917
Descriptions of some Danish Colonial Uniforms