1st (King's) Dragoon Guards Other Ranks Brass Cap Badge - Victorian / Edwardian Pattern (Type 1)

A die struck gilding metal brass cap badge, good gilding metal colour with slight loss of detail to the small centre shield otherwise in good condition with two original dark toned loops (slightly nipped but functional). As worn from 1898 - 1910, then worn with a slider from circa 1910 - 1915. Scarce.

The 1st Dragoon Guards wore until 1915, the brass eagle from the Arms of the Emperor Francis Joseph I of Austria who was their Colonel-in-Chief from 1896 to 1914, with title scroll below. With Austria being aligned against the allies in WW1, his insignia was discontinued in 1915, and replaced with a bi-metal eight-pointed star until 1937, when the brass eagle was resumed but without the scroll. The Regiment was amalgamated in 1959 with the Bays to form The Queen's Dragoon Guards.

K&K Vol 1, Fig. 734 refers.

Comm DaMc (686)

Code: 68715