Corporals had only a white cord knot or white silk epaulette on the right shoulder for their rank. Musicians had the most distinguished uniforms of all. Their head gear was a black bearskin cap with a metal plate on the front. The light infantry companies of the battalions wore leather caps in lieu of hats and shorter coats as per the British Light Infantry. The musicians of the light companies also carried a horn to give their signals to the troops.
Original examples show the battalion name marked on the barrel.
Some longland patterns were cut down to the specifications of shortland muskets, there being a difference of four inches in the barrel. Officers usually carried no muskets, but when they did it was a light fusil or carbine, of private make and purchase. The cartridges for the musket were carried in a cartridge box suspended from a white leather strap with a brass GR cypher attached. These cartridge boxes or pouches, as they were termed, were generally light and held about 36 or 40 rounds of ammunition. The light infantry companies were provided with radically different equipment of black belting and a much smaller cartridge box, which was carried alongside a shot bag and powder horn.