Description
Physical description
Pair of collar badges to officers of "The Queen's Lancashire Regiment", being a Lancashire rose with below a downward scroll embossed QUEEN'S LANCASHIRE. Rose petals red enamel, remainder gilt. Captioned: Collar Badges. Two spikes to reverse of each, but only one circular clutch clasp to each badge.
Physical description
Box 58: Mounting card captioned "The Queen's Lancashire Regiment Officers" on which 5 items, one of which a pair, (10774-10778). Reverse with a green sealing wax oval seal with MINISTRY OF DEFENCE / PATTERN ROOM with in the centre ARMY / OFFICERS. Small additional sealing wax deposits, red and green, to reverse of some fixings. A small lead disc seal fastens the cotton tape. Top left, an oval red stamp with "Q (MAINT) 2" / MINISTRY OF DEFENCE" with across the centre "15 Jun 1970". Ms notation top right: "37" in a circle.
History note
"The Queen's Lancashire Regiment" was a Regular unit of the British Army active from 1970 to 2006. Created on 25 March 1970 by the amalgamation of "The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)" and "The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire)", both erstwhile Lancastrian Brigade units.
History note
The Lancastrian Brigade was one of some dozen HQs set up in 1948 to administer groups of regiments, mostly within geographical areas. In 1958 the Brigades apparently became more formalised, with constituent regiments required to wear a common headdress badge. In July 1968, groups of these Brigades amalgamated to form around six HQs with similar administrative responsibilities to the Brigades, but now called 'Divisions'. The change was accompanied by a further round of amalgamations among the regiments, and as there was to be no common Divisional cap badge, regiments re-adopted their previous cap badges or designed new ones to reflect new amalgamations. The Lancastrian Brigade was absorbed, with others, into the 'King's Division'.
History note
During 1958 six of the seven Lancastrian Brigade's regiments amalgamated to create three new units, one of which was "The Lancashire Regiment", formed from "The East Lancashire" and "The South Lancashire (Prince of Wales's Volunteers)" Regiments. On 25 March 1970, "The Lancashire Regiment" amalgamated with "The Loyal Regiment" (which had not amalgamated in 1958) to create "The Queen's Lancashire Regiment". The badge of which this item is an example was adopted at this time.
History note
On 1 July 2006 "The Queen's Lancashire Regiment" was absorbed into the new "The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border)" as that unit's 1st Battalion. The Battalions did not carry heritage sub-titles.
History note
The central motif of "The Queen's Lancashire Regiment's" badges, both headdress and collar, is the red rose of Lancashire. This derives from two of its predecessor regiments, "The East Lancashire" and "The Loyal", where the motif was a central element. Both of these units were part of the Lancastrian Brigade, whose central headdress motif was similarly the Lancashire rose.
Embossed
QUEEN'S LANCASHIRE