King’s Shropshire Light Infantry Officer’s Helmet Plate. Navy Cloth An interesting pair to an

An interesting pair to an extremely rare unit

EMB: Now as number 2487 with the 8th BN on the 16th July 1915

He was killed in action on the Western Front on 26 July 1916

RTA: 9th June 1919

made from melting 1200 Austrian and Russian artillery pieces won in the recent campaigns

King’s Shropshire Light Infantry Officer’s Helmet Plate. Navy Cloth An interesting pair to anKings Shropshire Light Infantry Officers Helmet Plate. A good Victorian example with a gilt Victorian crowned star mounted with a Garter and laurel sprays bearing a silver regimental title scroll Kings Shropshire Lt Infy with a green enamel centre with a strung silver bugle with entwined initials KSLI below the bugle strings, the reverse with three lugs, enamel damage to the bottom right, very little gilding remaining, otherwise good condition $385