Collar badge, Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles, 1910-1922

Silver plate badge in the form of an eight-pointed, rayed star with a bugle horn with knotted cords in the centre, on a solid ground, within a garter bearing the abbreviated regimental title, 'Madras & S. Mahratta Rly Rifles', surmounted by a King's Crown on the topmost point of the star.

The Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles was an auxiliary unit formed in 1910 in India by the amalgamation of the Madras Railway Volunteers and the Southern Mahratta Railway Rifle Corps. From 1917 to 1929 it bore the title, 32nd Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles, before reverting to the Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles. The unit's motto was 'One and All'.

From the Field Marshal Sir John Chapple Indian Army Collection.