RSF (Vols) Glengarry Badge

A two-piece, white metal, glengarry/collar badge for a volunteer battalion of The Royal Scots Fusiliers with two lug fastenings (north and south). Bloomer 2, 65, or Churchill 610.

Note: Bloomer's second book on Scottish Regimental Badges 1793-1971, shows this badge (with a slider fastening) as a volunteer battalion glengarry badge of the Royal Scots Fusiliers.

Churchill shows this item as a collar badge under the title of The Royal Ayrshire and Wigton Rifles (The Prince Regent's Own).

He states: "As with the majority of Rifles, this corps did not wear collar badges. In 1881, they became the 4th battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, being renumbered 3rd in 1887.

"From then, the other ranks wore a larger white metal grenade with applied white metal thistle spray this badge. Also worn in the glengarry."

Code: 57619