Officer's helmet plate, 1st Somerset Light Infantry Militia, 1878-1881.

Die-struck. An eight-pointed rayed star, the top most point of which is displaced by a monarchial crown. Mounted upon the star, within a laurel wreath a frosted garter bearing the burnished title '1st Somerset Regt'.
Within the garter an embellished stringed bugle horn upon a black velvet ground.
Across the base of the wreath, a frosted scroll with beaded edges and foliate ends, bearing the burnished motto, 'Defendemus'.
The reverse bears three copper loop fittings, one behind the crown, one on either side of centre.