[gurkharifles]

Thanks Bill - I'd not spotted the shield on the 50th - and you are right under a glass it does look like the "50" has been erased - but for what purpose I have no idea - the rest of the badge is finely detailed and it can't have been omitted in the manufacture so must have been deliberate. I should have made it clear that all of these pieces were made for swagger sticks. The 48th is I believe to go on the top of a cylindrical cane top - whilst the 50th would have been silver soldered onto a ball top. The Black Watch would have gone onto the side of a cylindrical cane top. Whilst looking at some Canadian badge images prompted by your post I realised that I had another one - which I believe is the Royal Canadian Regt with Victorian crown. (pictures encl)