NAM.1970-12-42-1-5

Helmet plate, 60th (King’s Royal Rifle Corps) Regiment of Foot, 1878 (c) Black and made of bronze. Die-struck, front. Bugle, numerals within strings, in voided centre of inscribed circlet. Circlet in middle of Maltese cross, each division of which inscribed and separated by lions statant guardant. Inscribed scrolls above and below with Victorian crown at top. Decorated with battle honours. 3 lugs behind crown and east/west of circlet mid-high. Badge worn with scarlet cloth backing to centre. From a collection of badges associated with the 60th Foot (King’s Royal Rifle Corps). From the collection of Maj H G Parkyn.