Pugri badge, 47th Sikhs, 1901-1922

White metal badge in the form of a plain quoit.

The 47th (Sikh) Bengal Infantry was an Indian Army Regiment raised in 1901 in Sialkot, in the north-east of Punjab, now in modern day Pakistan. It was renamed the 47th Sikh Infantry in the same year. During World War One (1914-1918) the regiment served on the Western Front and in the Middle East, as part of the 8th Indian Infantry Brigade, fighting at the Battle of Megiddo in September 1918. In 1922 the 47th Sikhs became the 5th Battalion, 11th Sikh Regiment.

From the Field Marshal Sir John Chapple Indian Army Collection.