Tyneside Scottish Glengarry Badge

A white metal, 'one foot on the tower' pattern, glengarry badge for The Tyneside Scottish with two lug fastenings (east and west). KK2361 or Wood 450.

Note: Kipling & King (Volume II) says this badge was worn by the 12th (Tyneside Scottish) battalion of The Durham Light Infantry, which was formed in 1939 and transferred later that year as the 1st battalion The Tyneside Scottish, The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment).

Generally, these badges are attributed to the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 29th Battalions of the Northumberland Fusiliers, which were part of Kitchener's Army.

Colonel Denis Wood, in his book on The Fifth Fusiliers and its Badges, describes this badge as the third Tyneside Scottish pattern badge and dates it to late 1915.

Code: 59946