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Pouch belt plate, 4th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry or Rifle Corps, 1857-1858
pouch belt plate, pouch belt plate
Accession Number

NAM.2013-10-20-32-1

Description

Pouch belt plate, 4th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry or Rifle Corps, 1857-1858. Silver plate badge with Maltese Cross within a wreath on a solid ground, with lions between the arms of the cross, surmounted by a Guelphic crown, above a bar inscribed, ‘Bourbon’. In the centre of the cross, the regimental number in Roman numerals, ‘IV’, and on the arms, the battle honours, ‘Seringapatam’, ‘Mooltan’, ‘Punjab’, and ‘Beni Boo Alli’, on arms of cross. Associated with 4th Bombay Native Infantry (Rifle Corps) (1841-1885). From the J L Chapple Indian Army Collection.

Campaigns

Persian Gulf Expedition (1821)

Events

Seringapatam, Siege of, 1799 (4th Mysore War 1799), Multan, Siege of, 1848-49 (2nd Sikh War 1848-1849), Reunion (Ile Bourbon/ Ile Bonaparte), Capture of, 1810 (Napoleonic Wars, East Indies, Mauritius 1809-1810)