Hammer

£840

Ceylon Light Infantry Victorian Officer's first pattern helmet plate badge c. 1881. Fine rare British made silvered crowned star mounted with Garter resting in laurel sprays bearing tri-part scroll CEYLON LIGHT INFANTRY; elephant and palm tree to centre in place of the later Prince of Wales' plumes. Three loops. VGC Raised in 1st April, 1881 as a single battalion with 14 companies under the command of Lt. Col. John Scott Armitage. It was published in The Times of India 30th January, 1882 that HRH Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, had agreed to become Honorary Colonel.