Indian Army - 102nd Prince of Wales's Own Grenadiers Cast 2 Part Cap Badge

An attractive large cast gilt grenade with two applied bronze metal devices (possibly lightly silver plated), the prince of Wales's feathers and mottos mounted on the flames and the sphinx with Eqypt no the tablet below mounted on the ball of the grenade. Two integral loops to the reverse.


The sphinx commemorates the regiment's presence in Eqypt in 1801. It could trace its origins to 1796, when it was raised as the 13th Battalion, Bombay Native Infantry, who were part of the Indian army which was sent to Egypt in 1801, to fight a the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1818, the regiment's soldiers fought in the Peshwa Wars, distinguishing themselves at the Battle of Koregaon in the Third Anglo-Peshwa War.

In 1824 when it became a regiment in its own right, when it was named the 2nd or Grenadier Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry.

In 1840, it took part in the First Afghan War and then the 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia which was a punitive expedition carried out by armed forces of the British Empire against the Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia. In 1880, the unit took part in the Battle of Maiwand during the Second Afghan War. The regiment was stationed in Mhow, when in October 1902 it was order to go to Berbera, to fight in the Somaliland Campaign.

In 1922, the 102nd Prince of Wales's Own Grenadiers became the 2nd Battalion, 4th Bombay Grenadiers.

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