Helmet, other ranks, Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry, 1850 (c)

Black leather skull, front and back peaks. White metal and leather chin chain, attached with two lion head chin chain bosses, with black horse hair plume.

At centre front a plate with a four-pointed star and a St Andrew's cross, overlaid with the intertwined letters, 'VR', surrounded by the motto: 'Nemo me impune lacessit'. This is enclosed within a crown-topped garter bearing the motto, 'Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense'. Around the circlet is a wreath of thistles, below which are four scrolls bearing the inscription, 'Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry'.