Cap badge, Oudh Volunteer Rifle Corps, 1865-1901

Blackened brass badge in the form of a Maltese Cross surmounted by a crown, with lions at the arms of the cross. A bugle horn in the centre, within a circlet, inscribed with regimental title, 'Oudh Volunteer Mounted Rifles', with a scroll below bearing the battle honour 'Defence of Lucknow 1857'.

The Oudh Volunteer Rifle Corps was raised in 1865. From 1887, part of the regiment was amalgamated into The Cawnpore Light Horse, which became the United Provinces Light Horse on 1 April 1904. The remainder of the regiment was reorganised as the Lucknow Volunteer Rifle Corps on 10 January 1872. This was reconstituted as the 5th Lucknow Group Garrison Artillery on 1st April 1917, then as the VI Lucknow Field Brigade on 1 October 1920, before becoming the No. 13 Lucknow Field Battery in 1933. As part of another splinter, in 1903 some of the regiment also formed part of the Oudh Rohilkhand Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps on 24 July 1903.

From the Field Marshal Sir John Chapple Indian Army Collection.