Victorian 17th Lancer\'s \'Death Or Glory Boy\'s\' (Charge Of The Light Brigade) Troopers Lance Cap With Queen’s Crown Helmet Plate & Plume. Sn 22441:20 Clothing

Victorian 17th Lancer's 'Death Or Glory Boy's' (Charge Of The Light Brigade) Troopers Lance Cap With Queen’s Crown Helmet Plate & Plume. Sn 22441:20 - 22441:20

The 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) was a Cavalry Regiment of the British Army, notable for its participation in the heroic Charge of the Light Brigade during the Crimean War. The Regiment's famous motto was 'Death Or Glory' (Illustrated in image 1 is an image of the painting ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Richard Caton Woodville Jr. 1894. Commissioned by the Illustrated London News, the artist completed The Charge of the Light Brigade as part of a commemorative series portraying famous British battles. The painting, which depicts the head of the charge with Lord Cardigan alongside the 17th Lancers, is now part of the permanent holdings of the Palacio Real de Madrid, the official residence of the Spanish royal family). This is a scarce, original, Cavalry Trooper's Lance Cap of the 17th Lancer's. The Lance Cap has a skull and peak of black patent leather with buff & red cloth band. It has a mortar board top with ridged sides and yellow cord descending the angled corners. It has a brass plume boss with a buff & blue material ball mounted with a Regimental 'skull and crossbones' brass badge. The cloth fittings have some areas of age related service wear. The plume is black horse hair. The helmet plate has a Victorian Crown at the top over the Royal Arms of Great Britain with the Death’s head skull & crossed bones badge of the 17th Lancers over the Lancer banner ‘Seventeenth Lancers’. The plate has Battle Honours ‘Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, Sevastapol, South Africa 1879’. The leather backed brass link chin chain is suspended from two Lion's head ear bosses. The Lance Cap is complete with silk lining with draw string & leather sweat band. The helmet is approx. size 7. The price for this helmet to a famous Lancers Regiment includes UK delivery. Sn 22441:20

£850.00