16th County of London Battalion (Queen’s Westminster Rifles) Cap Badge 1908-22

16th County of London Battalion (Queen's Westminster Rifles) Cap Badge

Other ranks in blackened brass. A Bath cross overlain by a circlet inscribed’ 16th County of London Queen’s Westminsters’. In the centre a portcullis with a coronet above. Over the top arm of the cross is a tablet inscribed ‘South Africa 1900-02’, above the tablet an Imperial crown. To the reverse a ‘slider’ or vertical shank.
Also in white metal.

16th Battalion were amalgamated with the 15th in 1922 to form the ’16th London Regiment (Queen’s Westminster and Civil Service Rifles)’. A new badge was introduced and the above badge became obsolete.

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