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10th Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteer Corps Victorian Officer?s pouch belt plate. A good scarce die-
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10th Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteer Corps Victorian Officer?s pouch belt plate. A good scarce die-cast silvered example. Crowned laurel wreath surmounted by a tri-part scroll inscribed ?Pro Libertate Patriae?; strung bugle to junction of wreath with tri-part scroll below inscribed ?Rifle Volunteer Corps?. Mounted to the centre, an eight pointed star superimposed on a rayed eight pointed star; to the centre ?10? within a strap inscribed ?Hamlets?; the strap surmounted by The Tower. Three screw posts to reverse. Fracture between wreath and scroll on one one side otherwise GC. Formed at Goldman?s Fields 13th December, 1860. Moved to Mile End Gate in 1861, Whitechapel in 1865, Shoreditch in 1872 and finally Finsbury in 1874. Became I, K and L Companies, 2nd Corps in 1880. Hugh King Collection
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10th Tower Hamlets Rifle Volunteer Corps Victorian Officer?s pouch belt plate. A good scarce die-cast silvered example. Crowned laurel wreath surmounted by a tri-part scroll inscribed ?Pro Libertate Patriae?; strung bugle to junction of wreath with tri-part scroll below inscribed ?Rifle Volunteer Corps?. Mounted to the centre, an eight pointed star superimposed on a rayed eight pointed star; to the centre ?10? within a strap inscribed ?Hamlets?; the strap surmounted by The Tower. Three screw posts to reverse. Fracture between wreath and scroll on one one side otherwise GC. Formed at Goldman?s Fields 13th December, 1860. Moved to Mile End Gate in 1861, Whitechapel in 1865, Shoreditch in 1872 and finally Finsbury in 1874. Became I, K and L Companies, 2nd Corps in 1880. Hugh King Collection
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