Editing Yeomen of the Guard (section)

===Officers' ranks and today's uniform===
[[File:Checking the cellars - 52063546273.jpg|thumb|left|An Officer with a detachment of Yeomen, on their way to search the cellars of the Houses of Parliament on the day of the State Opening.]]
The senior officer is the [[Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard]], which is filled by the current [[Deputy Chief Whip]] in the [[House of Lords]]. Officers ranking below the Captain are Lieutenant, Clerk of the Cheque and Adjutant, Ensign or Standard Bearer, and the Exon. In common with other branches of the military, a standardised uniform for officers was not adopted until the 18th century. By the early 19th century the officers of the Bodyguard were wearing red [[coatee]]s, blue trousers and a cocked hat (much as they do today).<ref name="Mansfield1980">{{cite book |last1=Mansfield |first1=Alan |title=Ceremonial Costume: Court, Civil, and Civic Costume from 1660 to the Present Day |year=1980 |url=https://archive.org/details/ceremonialcostum0000mans_q7c6/page/204/mode/2up?q=officers+uniform |publisher=A & C Black |location=London |pages=205–211 |isbn=978-0-7136-2083-2 |url-access=registration |access-date=16 September 2022}}</ref> In the 20th century it is described as a scarlet cloth double-breasted coatee with gold [[epaulettes]] and dark blue collar and cuffs; the skirts turned back with white cloth. Nine buttons in each row down the front, and two on the skirts behind. The buttons have a rose, shamrock and thistle device, topped by a crown; and a rose, shamrock and thistle appear within the gold embroidery of the epaulettes, collar, cuff slashes, sword flaps and also on the skirts of the coatee. The trousers are blue, with a gold stripe, and the hat has a 'General's plume' of 11-inch white swan feathers with red feathers under.<ref name="DWC1921">{{cite book |editor1-last=Trendell |editor1-first=Herbert A. P. |title=Dress and insignia worn at His Majesty's Court (issued with the authority of the Lord Chamberlain) |date=1921 |publisher=Harrison & Sons |location=London |pages=25–26 |url=https://archive.org/details/dressinsigniawor00greauoft/page/25/mode/1up |access-date=24 May 2022}}</ref> 

[[Aiguillettes]] are worn by the Captain, the Lieutenant, the Clerk of the Cheque & Adjutant and the Ensign, but not by the Exon. A 'gold stick' (ebony, with a gold top) is carried by the captain, and 'silver sticks' by the other officers.<ref name="Mansfield1980" />