A Sierra Leone West African Regiment Cap Badge Auction and silver

and silver

It was equipped with the Hurricane and later

with United trophy of arms suspension

He was awarded his Military Cross for actions that he took in saving the life of another officer

scoring seventy and seventy-nine percent respectively and was promoted to that rank on April 1

A Sierra Leone West African Regiment Cap Badge Auction and silverA Sierra Leone West African Regiment Cap Badge Great Britain: Bronze gilt, unmarked, 34. 5 mm x 44. 5 mm, intact slider, gilt wear evident on the obverse, better than very fine. Rare. Footnote: The West African Regiment was raised in 1889 at Sierra Leone in West Africa. The regiment served with great distinction at Sierra Leone 1898, Ashanti 1900, and in Duala in the Cameroons 1914 1916. It was disbanded on the August 1, 1928.