c1950s 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles White Metal Cap Badge

10th PMO Gurkha Rifles White Metal die-struck cap badge on long loops (to push through felt on the slouch hat). VGC.

This was the pattern authorised for wear from 1955 - 1994.

Ref: The Gurkha Museum's publication "Insignia of the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles" Figure 10GR D20A refers.




The 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles, (abbreviated to 10 GR), was originally a rifle regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment was formed in 1890, taking its lineage from a police unit and over the course of its existence it had a number of changes in designation and composition. It took part in a number of campaigns on the Indian frontiers during the 19th and early 20th centuries, before fighting in the First World War, the Third Anglo-Afghan War and the Second World War. Following India's independence in 1947, the regiment was one of four Gurkha regiments to be transferred to the British Army. In the 1960s it was active in the Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation. It was amalgamated with the other three British Gurkha regiments to form the Royal Gurkha Rifles in 1994.

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