The first photograph is a carte de visite taken by J. Batemann located at 54 Saint Georges Street in Canterbury. It is of a sergeant in the 13 ^th Hussars in an 1868 pattern walking out dress uniform. His shell jacket has a rounded collar with buff facings. The unique feature of this uniform is the white cloth trouser strips. The 13^th Hussars and the 17^th Lancers had white cloth trouser strips and were the only light cavalry regiments to have this distinction. The 6th Dragoon Guards, who were light cavalry from 1851 to 1861, also had blue trousers with a double white strip which they retained when they returned to the heavy cavalry. Hussars and Lancers during this period all wore trousers with two stripes 3/4 inches wide and 1/4 inch apart down each side seam. The strips were gold lace for officers and yellow cloth for other ranks except as noted in the above discussion. The trousers were of blue cloth except the 11 ^th Hussars who wore crimson and the officers of the 10^th Hussars who wore scarlet in levee dress.

The mounted other rank is a cabinet photograph taken in the late 1880's by James W. McLean of Dublin. His rank is unknown. He is in drill order and is armed with a Martini-Henry Cavalry Carbine and the 1885 pattern cavalry troopers sword. He also shows the white cloth trouser strips unique to the 13^th Hussars. The 13^th Hussars returned home from service in Natal, South Africa on the 3^rd of November 1885.