description
Physical description
badge, card, 2 seals
badge: a harp with a winged female figure forming part of the composition with the Imperial Crown above and resting on the wing and below the harp a scroll inscribed 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars
card: headed Standard Royal Army Clothing Department Sample Pattern No. 4680 A B 1904. 8th Hussars Regt. (CB 1179 1539 deleted) CB 0270; handwritten inscription beneath badge, To be fitted with Loops & Pins; printed, Badge, (Forage deleted) Cap, & F.P. Helmet All Ranks (When finished to be White Metal, 12 gauge; Gilding Metal, 14 gauge, deleted) Specification for Metal No. (ACD 283 A and 888A deleted) U/24; dated 30/11/04 and signed at base (illegible)
seals: one bears the Royal Arms encircled War Department Pattern; the other bears the shield of the Arms of the Board of Ordnance encircled Chief Inspector
History note
card: reverse inscribed Box 185 (202 177 deleted)
History note
card: reverse inscribed Locker 210 (deleted)
History note
card: reverse inscribed below list CB 50e 16/2/49 followed by the initials CAB
History note
card: reverse inscribed below list G of C Birmingham 7/1/52 followed by the initials CAB
History note
card: reverse inscribed below list Pattern Room (M of Supply) B'ham 29/12/50 followed by the initials CAB
History note
card: reverse inscribed below list Pattern Room Woolwich 15/9/49 followed by the initials CAB
History note
card: reverse inscribed with 2 lists of dates each followed by the initials of authorising officer; the dates in the left hand column refer to the date on which the pattern was sent out, while those in the right record the date the pattern was returned; the dates are: (right column) 1/3/27, 5/3/30, 12/1/33, 6/2/33, 23/11/34, 15/7/35, 13/2/36, 25/5/38, 25/MAY/39; (left column) 4/4/27, 2/6/31, 28/1/33, 26/8/33, 11/1/35, 11/9/35
Embossed
8TH KINGS ROYAL IRISH HUSSARS
