Cap badge, other ranks, Scots Guards, 1902-1905

Die struck, brass badge in the form of the Star of the Order of the Thistle, superimposed on which is a thistle within a circlet bearing the Latin motto: 'Nemo Me Impune Lacessit' (No one provokes me with impunity).

This badge would have been worn on the short-lived Brodrick cap. The main difference between the badges used for Brodrick caps and the badges used for their predecessor the Field Service cap is the type of fixing. Brodrick cap badges use slider fixings instead of a split pin fixing as used on the Field Service cap. When the Service Dress cap was introduced in 1905, the only change to the cap badge was the shortening in length of the slider.

The Scots Guards are third in the Guards order of precedence. Although they trace their origins back to 1642 they did not formally join the British Army establishment until 1661, after the Grenadier and Coldstream Guards.