26th Hussars. Cap badge. Gilding-metal. Circa 1941-1943

Complete with brass slider fitting to reverse, as issued

An un-marked 'Gaunt' restrike

Reference: Kipling & King No. 1916 (Volume II 'Head-Dress Badges of the British Army' (Kipling & King, 2006 edition))

The 26th Hussars was a very short lived 'armoured' cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1941 to 1943

The regiment was raised at Meerut , British India, in, June 1941 from a cadre of personnel taken from the 14th/20th King's Hussars. It was assigned to the 2nd Indian Armoured Brigade and was later moved to the 255th Indian Armoured Brigade at Sialkot. The regiment did not deploy to Burma and did not participate in battle

It was disbanded at Bolarum, near Secunderabad, in October 1943. Some of the personnel were at that time transferred to the 3rd Carabiniers

Condition: GVF

Code: 21623