Officers’ helmet plate, 4th Norfolk Rifle Volunteers, worn by Capt Robert George Burrell, 1878-1881.
White metal. An eight-pointed rayed star, the uppermost point displaced by a monarchial crown. At the centre of the star, within a laurel wreath, a garter. Within the garter, a stringed bugle-horn. The helmet plate centre is fastened to the star by means of four loops, a brass pin running diagonally through two of them. The bugle has been fastened by means of two loops through the centre of the plate, one of which and the pin, is missing, the other loop being secured by a paper clip. The whole plate has three loops upon the reverse for fastening.