shoulder belt plate, other ranks, shoulder belt plate
Accession Number
NAM.1992-04-323-1
Description
Shoulder belt plate, other ranks’, Earl of Chester’s Yeomanry Cavalry, 1805 (c). The Cheshire (Earl of Chester’s) Yeomanry was formed in 1797 by Sir John Leicester of Tabley as a response to the threat of invasion from Napoleonic France. The regiment was granted permission to use the Prince of Wales’ feathers in 1803 by the future King George IV.