National Army Museum

shoulder belt plate, shoulder belt plate

Accession Number

NAM.1982-10-117-1

Description

Officers’ shoulder belt plate, 1st (Renfrewshire) Volunteer Bn Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders), 1887-1908. Mounted on a burnished gilded brass ground, a white metal design of a wreath of myrtle to the dexter and a wreath of butcher’s broom to the sinister interlinked. Across the upper point of intersection a label of three points having a rose at the centre and a billet at each end (the mark of cadency of the Arms of HRH The Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne). Within the myrtle wreath, a boar’s head couped close above a frosted scroll. Within the wreath of broom, a wild cat sejant gardant above a frosted scroll. Above the wreaths, a frosted scroll below the coronet of a Sovereign’s child. Below the wreaths, a frosted scroll, below which is a further frosted scroll. Reverse bears two hooks at top and two studs at base.

Units

Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders), (1881-1921)

Volunteer Battalions, Princess Louise’s (Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders)

Inscriptions

On scroll below boar’s head, in burnished letters: ‘NE OBLIVISCARIS’ (badge and motto of the Argyll family) On scroll below wild cat, in burnished letters: ‘SANS PEUR’ (badge and motto of the Sutherland family) On scroll below coronet, in burnished letters: ‘PRINCESS LOUISE’S’ On upper scroll below wreaths, in burnished letters: ‘ARGYLL AND SUTHERLAND HIGHLANDERS’ On lower scroll below wreaths, in burnished letters: ‘1ST (RENFREW) V.B.’