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Brass Ttitle Cape Town Highalnder OR Central India Horse ?????
A pair of brass titles that I initially though were CIH (Central India Horse) but am now starting to think may be CTH (cape Town Highlanders). Can anyone confirm either please ! Quite large titles measuring 40mm wide x 18mm tall. Neither falls within my field of collecting so will be up for sale once positively identified.
Thanks in advance PL |
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Here is an example of an officer's shoulder title for the Cntyral Indian Horse. Presumably the sowars [troopers] wore the same sans POW plumes. Ity's from Ashok Nath's book on WWI Indian Army badges. It's similar but not, I think, identical.
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Thank you Peter
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Cape Town Highlanders S/T were white metal and not brass.
The lugs on your badge are typical East African, so I would suggest this is an Indian title... |
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It might possibly be a G rather than a C.
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Actually those are not typical of the integrally cast lugs on Indian badges, nor is the construction of the badge as whole quite like the norm.
I believe there is a version of the CIH without the POW plumes and although they are a bit strange, they may yet be for that regiment. As a thought, they may be post 1948 titles, and not the older ones. CB
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My only other thought is that the post '47 bades tend to be less well made, and this one certainly doesn't look that way to me. Along with the usual 'Guilty / Not Guilty', the Scottish court system has a possible verdit, in a trial, of 'Not Proven'. This may be one of those cases. Peter |
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