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Description: | Copper alloy badge. Pressed metal badge with a rounded-ended tensile tab behind it for attachment, probably to a cap band. The legend identifies the badge as of the Leicestershire Yeomanry, a Volunteer Regiment, and the battle honour on a scroll below dated 1900-1902 suggests this example should be dated thereafter, probably to the period of the First World War. The badge bears the motif of a battlemented tower with a scaling ladder leaning against it, rising right to left; the tower is surmounted by three plumes. The tower is surmounted by a scroll bearing the legend: LEICESTERSHIRE. The legend, carried over a basal scroll in three parts, continues: PRINCE / ALBERT'S OWN / YEO / SOUTH AFRICA 1900-02. The unit served with distinction throughout the First and Second World Wasr. Treated with oil by the finder; the tensile strip behind the badge became detached from the site of its brazed attachment during recording.Suggested date: Modern, 1910-1950.Height: 41.4mm, Width: 29.8mm, Thickness (badge front): 1mm, Weight: 6.16gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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