Oxford VTC Cap Badge

A scarce, bronzed, cap badge for The Oxfordshire Volunteer Regiment with a slider fastening. Both the badge and slider are marked for manufacturer Thomas Fattorini Bolton. KK1673.

Note: This unit was part of the WW1 Volunteer Training Corps movement.  read more

Code: 60085

Bristol RV Glengarry Badge

A rare, blackened brass, glengarry badge for The 1st Gloucestershire, City of Bristol, Rifle Volunteers with two lug fastenings (north and south). Brinson G46b.

Note: It looks like this badge has probably been re-blackened.  read more

Code: 60065

2VB E Surrey Glengarry Badge

A scarce, blackened brass, glengarry badge for the 2nd volunteer battalion of The East Surrey Regiment with three lug fastenings (north, east and west). HQ at Wimbledon.

Note: The https://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/regimental-badgtes/es/badges-east-surreys-3.html website suggests these badges were initially in blackened brass (after the 3rd Surrey Rifle Volunteers became the 2...  read more

Code: 60056

20th Middlesex RV Cap Badge

A scarce, brass, cap badge for The 20th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps (Artists Rifles) with a slider fastening. As KK2426.  read more

Code: 60029

CURV FS Cap Badge

A white metal field-service cap badge for The Cambridge University Rifle Volunteers, with two lug fastenings (east and west). Rawlings 380.

Note: An article by Nicholas Beswick in the May 2020 issue of The Bulletin of the Military Historical Society shows this badge (reference 8, p176-177) and dates it to c1892-97. Figure 4 shows this badge on the FSC.  read more

Code: 60026

RNF (Vols) Fur Cap Grenade

A white metal fur cap grenade for a volunteer battalion of The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers with two lug fastenings (north and south). As KK945.  read more

Code: 60013

5th VB Devons Cap Badge

A scarce, white metal, cap badge for the 5th volunteer battalion of The Devonshire Regiment with two lug fastenings (east and west). HQ at Newton Abbot.

Note: The orb on the crown is bent over rather than absent.  read more

Code: 59999

1st Somerset Rifles Officer’s PBP

A rare, silvered, pouch-belt plate for an officer of The 1st battalion Somerset Rifles with two screw fastenings (east and west).

Note: The badge design reflects the Arms of Bath.  read more

Code: 59970

Finsbury Rifles Glengarry Badge

A scarce, blackened brass, glengarry badge for The 39th/21st (Finsbury) Middlesex Rifle Volunteers with two lug fastenings (east and west).

Note: The 39th Middlese RVC (Finsbury Rifles) became the 21st Middlesex RVC in a general renumbering carried out in 1880.  read more

Code: 59966

1st VB Hampshire Regt Glengarry Badge

A white metal glengarry badge for the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment with three lug fastenings (north, east and west). HQ at Winchester. Woods 8.10.

Note: Terence Woods, in his book on 'The Military Insignia of Hampshire and The Isle of Wight', dates this glengarry to circa 1897-1901 only.  read more

Code: 59955