2nd VB DCLI Victorian FS/Cap Badge

A very rare, white metal, Victorian period cap badge for the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry with three lug fastenings (north, east and west). HQ at Bodmin. Ivall & Thomas 285.

Note: This badge is incorrectly ascribed to the Somerset Light Infantry in early versions of Kipling & King but this was corrected in later editions (reference 606).

Ivall & Thomas describe this item as a field service cap badge for the 2nd VB and estimate it was worn c1895-1908. Churchill (reference 911) shows a smaller version of this badge and says it was worn on both the collar and FS cap.

Code: 52335