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Auction: 4004 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 324

A Victorian Officer's Shoulderbelt Plate of the Middlesex Rifle Volunteers All in silver (HM London 1862), with an Armorial within a strap inscribed 39th MIDDLESEX RIFLE VOLUNTEER CORPS, surmounted by a crest coronet and edged with an oakleaf wreath bearing a scroll inscribed PRO ARIS ET FOCIS, screw post fittings (one securing nut missing) Estimate £ 120-180 Note: The Armorial on this plate has not been identified. According to information kindly provided by Colonel Denis Wood, the 39th Middlesex RVC was raised in Clerkenwell in 1860. In 1862 it was authorised to include "The Finsbury Rifle Volunteer Corps" in its title, although these words were never incorporated in its badges, and Finsbury had no Arms of its own. The unit was renumbered 21st in 1880, and in the Cardwell reorganisation of 1881 it became a Volunteer battalion of the Rifle Brigade, being transferred to the KRRC the following year. In 1908 it became the 11th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment.

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