Cap badge, officer, Prince of Wales's (North Staffordshire Regiment), 1916 (c)

This is an officer quality badge being made from silver and gilded metal. It is marked 'J.R.Gaunt/London' on the back.

It comprises a Staffordshire knot above a scroll with regimental title, 'North Stafford', surmounted by the Prince of Wales's feathers emerging from a coronet above a scroll with the motto, 'Ich Dien'. The Regiment was formed during the 1881 Army reforms by merging the 64th Foot and 98th Foot, inheriting the 64th's association with Staffordshire and becoming the county regiment for the north of that county. The motto on the badge, 'Ich Dien', means 'I Serve' and was inherited from the 98th Foot.

From a collection of 88 cap badges from the Gaunt Collection, 1916.