Welsh South Wales Borderers (SWB) Regimental Officer’s Silver Washed Cap Badge

Scarce, very nice fine fresh 'washed silver' Officer Pattern die-cast cap badge. Wreath of Immortals, Sphinx on “EGYPT” tablet to voided centre; ‘SWB’ across the base of the wreath. Loops. Near, VGC.


Immortals ordered to be borne as Her Majesty’s tribute to the gallant Defence of Rorke’s Drift.

The S.W.B. was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in England in 1689, as Sir Edward Dering's Regiment of Foot, and afterwards had a variety of names and headquarters. In 1782, it became the 24th Regiment of Foot, and had its depot in Warwickshire. It was based at Brecon from 1873 and the regiment recruited from the border counties of Brecknockshire, Monmouthshire, and Herefordshire. It was not called the South Wales Borderers until the Childers Reforms of 1881. The regiment served in a great many conflicts, including the American War of Independence, various conflicts in India, most famously in the Zulu War, Second Boer War, and World War I and World War II. In 1969 the regiment was amalgamated with the Welch Regiment to form the Royal Regiment of Wales.

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