Tyneside Irish

Brass cap badge with 2 loops to reverse. K&K Vol1 states worn by the 24th/25th/26th/27th and 30th Battalions as a cap badge but Colonel Denis Wood's excellent book 'The Fifth Fusiliers and its Badges' clearly states and shows that this is part of a title (p159/160), also explaining that the earliest harps were made by Reid & Sons of Newcastle on Tyne, a well known local jeweller. It is not known if this was ever sealed by His Majesty's War Office

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