Gallery No 10 - Badges

Light Infantry & Rifle Regiments - 46 Images

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Cornwall Light Infantry - 1st Vols Btn Pre 1908	Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry 1st Vols Btn 1898/1908	Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry 1901/1959

Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry 1901/1959	Royal Devon Militia LI 1st Btn Post 1881	Durham Light Infantry 1901/1953

Durham Light Infantry Post 1953	Royal Guernsey Light Infantry Pre 1939	Herefordshire Light Infantry Pre 1947

Herefordshire Light Infantry	Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1st Btn 1908/1921	Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 1908/1945

Kings Own Shropshire Light Infantry 1920/1950	Kings Own Shropshire Light Infantry 1950/1958	Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert) 1898/1950

Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert) 1898/1950	Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert) small size 1950/1959	Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert) Territorial Vols 1908/1922

Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert) Territorial Vols 1908/1922	Somerset Light Infantry 3 & 4 Btn (Prince Albert) 1908/1922	Somerset Light Infantry 3 & 4 Btn (Prince Albert) 1908/1922

Yorkshire Light Infantry Pre 1901	Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1898/1945	Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1945/1959

Light Infantry The Light Infantry was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Light Division. It was formed on 10 July 1968 as a "large regiment" by the amalgamation of the four remaining light infantry regiments of the Light Infantry Brigade: 1968 to 2007	The Royal Jersey Light Infantry The Royal Militia of the Island of Jersey" was first formed in 1337. They were probably designated "Light Infantry" in 1814 at the same time as the Guernsey Militia, and after the Napoleonic Wars consisted of 6 regiments (later called battalions), and an artillery unit:	The Rifles The Rifles is a new British Army Regiment that was created as a result of the Future Army Structure. Announced on 24 November 2005 by the MOD, The Rifles are formed by the amalgamation of the Light Infantry and the Royal Green Jackets, along with the Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry and the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry which will merge into a single battalion. This will bring the whole of the Light Division under a single cap badge. 2007 to

Somerset & Cornwall Light Infantry 1959/1968 - an amalgamation of The Somerset Light Infantry and The Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry	Irish Militia - Armagh Light Infantry Glengarry 1874-81 Raised 1793 at Armagh, re-designated Light Infantry in 1855, became 3rd Bn. Royal Irish Fusiliers 1st July 1881	Victorian Queens County Rifles Cap Badge Brass Metal A Bugle with Strings Surmounted by a Crown Below the Bugle a Scroll inscribed Queens County Rifles..

The Rand Light Infantry of the South African Army. (Brass)	19th Surrey Rifles	1st Bucks Rifle Volunteers

London Finsbury Rifles South Africa 1900/2	Victorian County Carlow Rifles Officer's Cross-Belt Plate from 8th Battalion (Carlow Rifles Regiment of Militia ) [1881-1908].	9th Battalion Queen Victorian Rifles

Somerset 2nd Battalion Volunteers	Somerset 1st Battalion Volunteers	DCLI 1st Battalion Volunteers.

Rare Victorian Carlow Rifles Glengarry Badge circa 1875s Comprising a thin blackened brass Crowned strap inscribed 'Erin go Bragh, Carlow Rifles' resting on a shamrock spray; to the centre, the Maid of Erin Harp on a lined ground. Raised 1793 at Carlow, became 8th Bn. KRRC on Friday 1st July 1881	2nd Volunteer Battalion Highland LI	Essex Militia

London Irish Rifles - Better known as "D (London Irish Rifles) Company, London Regiment" the LIR is a volunteer Rifle Regiment with a distinguished history. The London Irish Rifles were originally formed in 1860 during the Victorian Volunteer Movement as the "28th Middlesex (London Irish) Rifle Volunteer Corps".	Artists Rifles In 1860 this 'Corps of Artists' was formed consisting of painters, sculptors, engravers, musicians, architects and actors. Other meetings followed at which officers were elected. The badge, designed by Wyon the Queen's medallist, consisting of two heads: Mars - God of War, and Minerva - Goddess of Wisdom, was chosen to represent war and fine arts. The badge bore the motto 'Cum Marte Minerva' which was also the title of the first Regimental March, the words of which were written by an Artist, George Cayley. A regimental rhyme records: "Mars, he was the God of war, and didn't stop at trifles. Minerva was a bloody whore. So hence The Artists' Rifles."	2nd King's African Rifles The regiment was formed on 1 January 1902, and combined a number of units from various British East African dependencies - Somaliland, British East Africa (from July 1920: Kenya), Uganda and Nyasaland.

VICTORIAN TOWER HAMLET QUEENS OWN LIGHT INFANTRY	RHODESIA LIGHT INFANTRY COMMANDO UDI RLI BERET BADGE	WW1 CANADIAN PRINCESS PATRICIAS LIGHT INFANTRY BADGE

SOUTH AFRICAN CAP BADGE - DURBAN LIGHT INFANTRY DLI	SOUTH AFRICAN DURBAN LIGHT INFANTRY CAP BADGE - 1964	V.C THE 51ST KING OWN LIGHT INFANTRY GLENGARRY

Maratha Light Infantry	Rajputana Rifles	Jammu & Kashmir Light Infantry [JAKLI]

Sultan Of Oman Light Infantry	127th (Queen Mary's Own) Baluch Light Infantry - WOWSlider.com	Ceylon Light Infantry - WOWSlider.com
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