East India Volunteer Rifle Corps Victorian Crown Cap Badge, 1869-1901
2 lugs to the reverse.
60 mm high
Similar to Cox 2676
Helmet badge, East Indian Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps, 1869-1901
White metal badge with monogram, 'EIRVR', crossed rifles and a bugle horn above a scroll bearing the motto, 'Defence not Defiance', surmounted by crown.
The East Indian Railway Volunteer Rifle Corps was an auxiliary unit formed in July 1869 as part of the British Indian Army's Bengal Command. It drew on civilian staff of the East Indian Railway and its headquarters was at Jamalpur, the location of the East Indian Railway's locomotive workshops. The unit was amalgamated with the Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway Battalion in 1926.
