button, button
Accession Number
NAM.1979-12-16-5
Description
Twenty four other ranks’ buttons, 7th Middlesex (London Scottish) Rifle Volunteers as Volunteer Battalion of Rifle Brigade (Prince Consort’s Own), believed to have been worn by Sgt L Greig, 1894-1902. White metal, brass backed, fixed shank, half-domed. Within a rimmed edge, a relief design of a circlet within which is a star similar to the star of the Order of the Thistle. Superimposed upon the centre of the star, a monarchial crown. Sgt L Greig was a clerk who had seen previous service with the 7th Middlesex (London Scottish) Rifle Volunteers. He enrolled in the City Imperial Volunteers in December 1899.
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