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; harp in white metal, crown and scroll in gilding metal
card: headed CB 0270 Royal Army Clothing Department Pattern No. 4680 A Standard (sample deleted); inscribed, (To be fitted with Loops & Pins, deleted) Badge Cap & FP Helmet. All Ranks. 8th Hussars; dated 30/11/04 and signed AB Arding; authority given as ADC/Patterns/1247 & 177
seals: one bears the shield of the Arms of the Board of Ordnance encircled Chief Inspector; the other is illegible
History note
card: reverse inscribed 111 Penfold St. London 8/1/52 followed by initials CAB
History note
card: reverse inscribed Firmin & Sons Birmingham 28/10/53 followed by initials CAB and, in a different hand, 3876
History note
card: reverse inscribed Issued 25/11/48 followed by initials (illegible)
History note
card: reverse inscribed M of S Pattern Room B'ham 7.12.48 followed by initials CAB
History note
card: reverse inscribed Pattern Room B'ham 29/8/49 followed by initials CAB
History note
card: reverse inscribed Pattern Room GDS 8/11/50
Embossed
8TH KINGS ROYAL IRISH HUSSARS