NAM.1985-10-104-1

Cap badge, officers’, 294th (Queen’s Own Dorset Yeomanry) Field Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army), 1953-1967. Cast and partially die struck ‘HONI.SOIT.QUI.MALY.Y.PENSE / QO / DORSET / Y / SOUTH / AFRICA / 1900 / 1901 / THE GREAT / WAR’ a laurel wreath entwined with frosted scolls bearing the battle honour and dates. Across the base of the wreath a frosted scroll bearing the burnished words: The Great War. Within the wreath the frosted Garter bearing the burnished Garter motto surmounted by a monarchial crown. Within the Garter on a voided ground a diagonally positioned frosted scroll bearing the burnished title: Dorset. Above the scroll the pierced initials: QO and below the scroll the pierced letter: Two white metal loop fittings horizontally placed on reverse.