George Albert Goffin - uniform ?

[Regorian]

Indeed, Coldstream Guards. Not sure about the date. Maybe as early as the 1860's. Not seen his head gear before. Should be possible to improve it.

Added: No, 1890's.

[Malcolm33]

My Grandmother's brother William Grant was in the Coldstream Guards and I got all of his Army Records from the Record Office in Kew, many years ago.    He was in many of the Boer War battles and his clasp has Diamond Hill on it.   An old sketch shows them wearing them Pith helmets and others with the Australian type hat.

[MaecW]

The picture posted by Malcolm is, as stated on it, the charge of two units together : the Guards and the CIV (City of London Imperial Volunteers). The Guards are wearing pith helmets and the CIV wear bush hats.

The "pillbox" ,which is the hat worn by Kim's gg-grandfather, was standard issue (walking out dress ?) for many British army infantry units in the late Victorian period.