Bugle (L.I.) badge

[BILL DUGGAN]

Hi Badge spotters any ideas about this one? Please note the total absence of hanging strings on the cord knot.
My own guess is it's a very early badge from the Crimean period or earlier.
The only time I've seen a similar bugle badge is on Napoleonic shakos. (see Sharpe).........but this one is brass
Could it be the badge worn over the 'pork-pie' cap numbers by line regiment light companies.
The only other thing I can think is that it could be an early L.I. buglers arm badge. It's about 1.75 inches high and wide. Three strong lugs in Pyramid configuration.
Hope one of you light infantrymen can help.

[Toby Purcell]

Originally Posted by BILL DUGGAN

Hi Badge spotters any ideas about this one? Please note the total absence of hanging strings on the cord knot.
My own guess is it's a very early badge from the Crimean period or earlier.
The only time I've seen a similar bugle badge is on Napoleonic shakos. (see Sharpe).........but this one is brass
Could it be the badge worn over the 'pork-pie' cap numbers by line regiment light companies.
The only other thing I can think is that it could be an early L.I. buglers arm badge. It's about 1.75 inches high and wide. Three strong lugs in Pyramid configuration.
Hope one of you light infantrymen can help.

It might be the LI badge first worn on the field service cap before the sealed patterns of regimental badges in 1898. See enclosed photo of a 1st Bn Oxf & Bucks man with a cap badge too small to be the 1898 pattern.

[BILL DUGGAN]

All the L.I. bugle collar badges shown in Colin Churchild book, sealed patterns (the earliest being circa 1870's) show cord hanging from the knot of the bugle cords. That's why I started the thread.