Helmet badge, Nagpur Volunteer Rifles, 1860-1901

Black metal badge in the form of a cross surmounted by a Guelphic Crown, with a lion between each arm; a bugle horn in the open centre, within a circlet inscribed with the unit title, 'Nagpur Volunteer Rifles'.

The Nagpur Volunteer Rifles was a volunteer auxiliary regiment formed in December 1860. In 1904 the unit absorbed the Berar Volunteer Rifle Corps. It was renamed the 2nd Nagpur Rifles on 1 April 1917, and underwent a further name change in December 1927, becoming the Nagpur Regiment. In 1937 the unit name reverted to the designation, Nagpur Rifles.

From the Field Marshal Sir John Chapple Indian Army Collection.