Other ranks’ proficiency badge awarded to winners of the Queen’s Prize, 4th Durham Artillery Volunteers, 1889.
Upon a scarlet cloth ground, an embroidered and padded design of a shield edged with gold beading and bearing three gold and silver wire guns upon a cream silk ground. The shield is surmounted by a gold and silver wire Imperial crown upon a crimson velvet ground. Below and flanking the shield is a U-shaped blue silk scroll edged with gold beading and bearing the gold wire inscription ‘NATIONAL ARTILLERY ASSOCIATION’. Below the scroll, a further blue silk scroll edged with gold beading and bearing the silver wire date ‘1889’. The embroidered badge is fixed to a similar shaped curved white metal plate bearing the remains of a vertical brooch fitting on the reverse.