Cavalry button ID

[tonyboyle]

Please can anyone help me identify the button in the attached image. I think it may be the 9th Lancers, but seems different to any images I have seen elsewhere.

[jeanpit-frenchy]

it's a button of 9th Queen's royal lancer until 1960 (gilt)

-plate 26 of BUTTONS a guide for collector's by Gwen SQUIRE

cheers

[boots and saddles]

I don't know my British buttons but a 1960 Queens Regiment with a Kings crown? Interesting. Ray

[boots and saddles]

I don't know my British buttons but a 1960 Queens Regiment with a Kings crown? Interesting. Ray

[Alan O]

There were lots of regts still wearing the 'Kings' crown in the late 1950s. In some regts, the Officers had changed over (badges being private purchase in small productions runs) but the Ors stocks were still being used up.

Alan

[jeanpit-frenchy]

Originally Posted by boots and saddles

I don't know my British buttons but a 1960 Queens Regiment with a Kings crown? Interesting. Ray

It seemed to me strange also...
I only gave the informations of GWEN books ..

if somebody want them , i can send a scan of the plate !!

[Cardiffbloke]

Not so strange considering how Regiments in the British army go about their almost independant business....At RD QDG for example, the WO2s wear King's Crown Wrist bands. Handed over from outgoing to incoming SSMs on handover.

[boots and saddles]

I wasn't thinking the info that Jean Pitt gave was strange because he gave it from another source, but it do seem strange that a Regt would wear another monarch's crown unless it was one of the Kings Regts. but you fellows have seen lots of incidents where this has happened. and as a result we learn. Ray

[Toby Purcell]

The Blues and Royals (RHG and Dragoons) still wear the Kings Crown for their Major's badge of rank to this day.