Collar badge, No 13 (Lucknow) Field Battery, Lucknow Rifles, 1933-1947 (brass)

Collar badge, No 13 (Lucknow) Field Battery, Lucknow Rifles, 1933-1947. Brass badge in the form of the ruined Lucknow Residency building at the time of the Indian Mutiny, above a scroll bearing the inscription, ‘Defence of Lucknow 1857’. The Lucknow Volunteer Rifle Corps was an auxiliary regiment formed on 10 January 1872 from part of the Oudh Volunteer Rifle Corps. On 6 June 1884 the unit returned to its designation as the Oudh Volunteer Rifle Corps, and then again became the Lucknow Volunteer Rifles on 24 July 1903. It was reconstituted as the 5th (Lucknow) Group Garrison Artillery on 1 April 1917 and then became the VI (Lucknow) Field Brigade on 1 October 1920. It became No 13 (Lucknow) Field Battery in 1933. From the Field Marshal Sir John Chapple Indian Army Collection.