NAM.1980-10-45-2

Field officers’ (below the rank of colonel) bonnet badge, 5th (The Sutherland and Caithness Highland) Bn Seaforth Highlanders (Ross-shire Buffs, the Duke of Albany’s), 1908-1920. White metal cast design of a frosted garter with raised burnished edges, within which a cat-a-mountain upon an heraldic wreath. Fastened behind the upper part of the garter, and slightly overlapping, three feathers. Two white metal loops horizontally placed on reverse. This pattern also worn by Caithness and Sutherland Home Guard from 1940 to 1945, by the 5th Bn Seaforth Highlanders from 1921 to 1946 and by officers of the 1st Caithness Cadet Company from 1946 onwards.