Hampshire Regiment - Volunteers.

Scarce king's crown silver and gilt officers Home Service helmet plate with three loops to the reverse. The Royal Tiger and laurel wreath on a black velvet ground to the centre of a Garter Strap within a wreath of laurel bearing the scrolls, ' The Hampshire Regiment ' and ' 3rd. Volunteer Battalion ' mounted upon a crowned multi-rayed star plate. { Slight fracture near the ' 3 ' in the scroll and two extra holes in the back plate, wires from the inner wreath detached,possibly broken when the velvet was replaced ? }