Officer's helmet plate, Sussex Rifle Volunteers, 1880 (c).

Silvered metal die-struck backplate: an eight-pointed star with top point displaced by a Victorian crown.
Rays extending to each point are wider and flat with seven graduated smaller rays (of rounded cross-section) between each.
Mounted on face within a double spray of laurel which meets at top beneath the crown and has a small ornament above the lower intersection is a circlet bearing in relief on a matt ground the title, 'Sussex Rifle Volunteers'.
Mounted on the slightly bombe centre within is a silvered device of a spade-shaped shield of the arms of Sussex set within an ornate Romanesque quatrefoil mount.