Collar badge, Nagpur Volunteer Rifles, pre-1904 (metal)

Collar badge, Nagpur Volunteer Rifles, pre-1904. Black metal badge, one of a pair, in the form of a cross with the unit title, ‘Nagpur’, surmounted by a Guelphic crown; a bugle horn in the solid centre, within a circlet inscribed with the title, ‘Rifle Volunteers’. The Nagpur Volunteer Rifles was a volunteer auxiliary regiment formed in December 1860. In 1904 the unit absorbed the Berar Volunteer Rifle Corps. It was renamed the 2nd Nagpur Rifles on 1 April 1917, and underwent a further name change in December 1927, becoming the Nagpur Regiment. In 1937 the unit name reverted to the designation, Nagpur Rifles. From the Field Marshal Sir John Chapple Indian Army Collection.