Bahawalpur 3rd Mounted Rifles (Camel Corps) Officers Large Pattern Blackened Button

Circa 26mm in diameter, fixed shank, Military outfitters Phelps & Co, London to reverse. Blackened, some wear to black finish on highpoints. A camel to centre below a number 3 and the words Bahawalpur Abbas Mounted Infantry around the rim face.


See:

https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Bahawalpur_Regiment

which confirms during the Third Afghan War of 1919, the Bahawalpur Mounted Rifles and Camel Transport Corps operated in the Zhob Valley in Baluchistan. After the war, the Camel Corps was disbanded and the remaining elements eventually emerged as the 1st Bahawalpur Sadiq Battalion in 1924.

G48.17

Code: 61617