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Originally Posted by 41st
Toby,
Thanks for that. I'd missed that possability, which is shameful of me as I'm primarily a Victorian collector and have a large number of helmet plates available to check.
It would make sense to have the same colour backing on the 1898 pattern badge as previously worn to back the glengarry badge.
By the way, I think you'll find that the sphinx in the centre of the helmet plate and glengarry pre-dated the dragon, this of course while they were still the 24th Foot.
Kevin
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Yes of course, mea culpa, the Spinx was the earlier version. Until 1881 and the Cardwell Reform, 4-years after the universal helmet was first taken into use, the 24th were still the 2nd Warwickshire Regt, so the version with dragon postdates that and would have been the second version, but the first version for 'SWB'.