Civil Service Custom House Rifle Volunteer Corp

[tarabelle]

Hi, I wonder can someone help me identify this button, I'm thinking its Civil Service Custom House Rifle Volunteer Corp (or at least thats how it was marked) happy to be corrected peeps

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[Cribyn]

Hello

The initials are ' G H R V C' and the button is for Glenalmond (Trinity College) Officers Training Corps.

Roger

[tarabelle]

Originally Posted by Cribyn

Hello

The initials are ' G H R V C' and the button is for Glenalmond (Trinity College) Officers Training Corps.

Roger

Roger, thank you very much I have looked again and you are correct that it is a G not a C

This came on a board with the 'suggested' description below it but I couldnt find any reference online hence the decision to place it under the scrutiny (and at the mercy) of the forum members

Cheers

T

[Peter Brydon]

As far as I can recall, I have never come across a Rifle Volunteer Corps with the title Custom HOUSE in the title, Custom (s) yes but not Custom House.

There was an interesting article in a fairly recent MHS Bulletin about a Liverpool Civil Service Rifles button. Apparently the meeting that was arranged to consider the formation of this Rifle Volunteer unit in 1860 took place at the Liverpool Custom House and the unit was referred to locally as the "Customs Corps ".

P.B.

[tarabelle]

Originally Posted by Peter Brydon

As far as I can recall, I have never come across a Rifle Volunteer Corps with the title Custom HOUSE in the title, Custom (s) yes but not Custom House.

There was an interesting article in a fairly recent MHS Bulletin about a Liverpool Civil Service Rifles button. Apparently the meeting that was arranged to consider the formation of this Rifle Volunteer unit in 1860 took place at the Liverpool Custom House and the unit was referred to locally as the "Customs Corps ".

P.B.

Hi Peter
The only reference i could find was a Custom House Corp in a book titled Civil Service Rifles, at appendix 1, it makes mention of a Custom House Corp but these were disbanded by 1814 so seems like a 'fantasy' description (if there is such a thing in the realm of buttons)

Link below

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...0rifle&f=false

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[Peter Brydon]

My apologies, in the list of Middlesex Rifle Volunteer units in "Collecting Volunteer Militaria" by Wyatt, the 26th Middlesex RVC had the title "Custom House "

P.B.