Button :- Loyal Leicester Volunteers (Help?)

[GriffMJ]

Hi All

This one is aimed at the "Button Boffs" on the forum:-

I have attached an out of focus "front & back" of a button for the "Loyal Leicester Volunteers" 1803-08. Does a Button Boff have this illustrated and described in a reference book?

[Rob Miller]

Hi Griff

There is a Loyal Leicestershire Volunteers button illustrated here.

Rob

http://asahelena.wixsite.com/militar...ns/buttons-j-l

[GriffMJ]

Thanks Rob

I thought , for a moment, that it might have been the "Loyal Leicester Volunteer Cavalry"..... but its not

Loyal Leicester Volunteers:- The first corps was raised in 1794 and titled 'Royal Leicester', a 2/3 Company unit commanded by Major John Mansfield. stood down in 1801 the few Volunteer units were converted to Local Militia in 1808/09. Re-raised in September 1803 and shown as '(Leicester (Loyal)', 480 strong of eight companies. Lt Col Commandant John Mansfield, Lt-Col Joseph Farmer.