- Title:
- Button, Bengal Staff Corps, 1861-1876
- Object name(s):
- button
- Brief description:
- Button, Bengal Staff Corps, 1861-1876. Gilt button by Ranken and Company, Calcutta, with Queen Victoria’s cypher, ‘VR’, within a garter bearing the unit title, surmounted by a crown. In 1861 independent Staff Corps were created for the Bengal, Bombay and Madras Armies. Their purpose was to provide officers for native regiments and to fill Staff and Army Department positions. In addition, officers could be selected for civil and political placements. The separate Staff Corps were subsequently combined into the Indian Staff Corps. From the Field Marshal Sir John Chapple Indian Army Collection.
- Collection:
- National Army Museum
- Associated concept:
- Badges
- Current location:
- National Army Museum, Study collection
- Object name:
- button
- Object number:
- NAM. 2013-10-20-61-6
- Right type:
- National Army Museum Copyright
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