WW1 Indian Army - 55th Coke's Rifles (Frontier Force) Officer's White Metal Forage Cap Badge

A theatre cast white metal cap badge in the form of a Maltese Cross surmounted by a King's Crown, with the regimental number, '55', within a circlet inscribed 'Frontier Force Rifles'. The arms of the cross are decorated, have spherical terminals and are supported by four lions. A scroll with a bugle below bears the word, 'Coke's'. Two original copper loops. A pleasing example and scarce.Ashok Nath 'Sowars and Sepoys in the Great War 1914- 1918' Fig 626 refers.Comm TeMo