Whilst most will associate the glengarry cap with Scots regiments not every one realises that it was worn by most British regiments during the last half of the 19th century and in some cases into the 20th century.
Each regiment had a specific glengarry badge differing in varying degree from that worn in other headdress.
I have always found the flaming grenade design used by fusilier regiments quite striking especially this type that followed the 1881 Childers reforms which reorganised the infantry of the line with the old numbered regiments becoming the named regiments more commonly recognised today.
The glengarry badges as a whole are often referred to as "Victorian" which is only partly accurate because (the numbered badges) were worn before the Victorian period and many were worn after into the reigns of E VII R, G V R, G VI R and even E II R in the case of The Royal Scots Fusiliers. The glengarry badges are similar in design to the fur cap grenades which differ slightly in shape and more so in quality of material and finish.
The ones I show here have the smaller SD cap badges shown for scale where relevant.
I am still looking for good examples of The Northumberland Fusiliers and The Royal Fusiliers items so if anyone knows where either might be lurking please let me know.
All comments are welcome and if you have more to show (earlier types too) please add them here.
If anyone is inclined to start a seperate thread for non-fusilier glengarry badges that would be great.
Regards
Mark
PS I don't know why there are two images of the reverse of The Dublin Fusiliers as they were the wrong way round so I changed them around and deleted the extra reverse image but it stayed put. If a Mod could remove the extra reverse image that would be good as it might confuse!
Lancashire Fusiliers
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Royal Irish Fusiliers
Royal Munster Fusiliers
Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Royal Scots fusiliers (later Royal Highland Fusiliers when amalgamated with The Highland Light Infantry in 1959 1st badge is brass 2nd is anodised aluminium. Note slight difference in shape of crown)
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