LIVERPOOL SCOTTISH 10TH BATTALION KING'S REGIMENT CAP BADGE
Hat badge; made of a gold coloured metal.
Two crossed bars at rear, with rearing horse standing on a mound in the foreground.
Enclosed at base by wreath made up of four laurel leaves - two each side. There are also four thistle blooms, two each side.
Donor Esma/Esme Berryman (born 1923) was the daughter of Alice Matilda Markey (nee Chitty) and William James Markey, so the badge is likely to have some connection with a member of one of these two local Toodyay families.
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Inscription is in two parts; across the top in a banner: LIVERPOOL SCOTTISH and across the base in a ribbon: THE KINGS.
The Liverpool Scottish, known as "the Scottish", was a unit of the British Army, part of the Army Reserve (formerly the Territorial Army), raised in 1900 as an infantry battalion of the King's (Liverpool Regiment). The Liverpool Scottish became affiliated to the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders in the 1920s and formally transferred to the regiment in 1937 with its identity preserved.
Service in the First World War was extensive and the Liverpool Scottish was one of the first territorial battalions to arrive on the Western Front when it deployed in November 1914. By then a second-line battalion, designated as the 2/10th to distinguish from the original, had been formed (in October 1914) and a third-line went on to be raised in May 1915. At home they became responsible for the training of recruits and provision of drafts for overseas service.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Scottish
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