Forage cap, peaked pillbox, West India Regiment, 189
Forage cap, peaked pillbox, warrant officers? or senior non commissioned officers?, West India Regiment, 1895 (c).Blue cloth crown and sides. On centre of crown is a black worsted corded button within the centre of a circlet formed of eight eyelets of flat worsted braid. Edge trimmed with gold coloured twisted round cord. On centre front an embroidered badge of the following design: within a gold wire wreath, half of a laurel and half of a palm, a blue silk Garter edged with gold wire and bearing the gold wire motto. Within the Garter the gold wire entwined letters: W I R, all upon a blue cloth ground. Inner cap band of brown leather bearing the remains of a paper label with the following details: - - - B Ltd N - - - - - J - - TO - SON. Lining of padded scarlet silk. Peak lined with green leather
