shoulder belt plate, officer, shoulder belt plate
Accession Number

NAM.1983-07-62-1

Description

Officer's shoulder belt plate, Dumbartonshire Rifle Volunteers, 1880 (c). Mounted design on a burnished white metal rectangular plate with rounded corners. In copper, a faceted saltire, at the centre of which is a white metal elephant with a howdah, upon a ground, facing dexter. Between the upper arms of the saltire, the gilt metal figure of St Andrew, above which is a frosted gilt metal scroll bearing the burnished motto, 'Fortitudo Et Fidelitas'. Below the saltire is a frosted gilt metal scroll bearing the burnished title, 'Dumbartonshire Volunteers'.