- Title:
- Button, Agra Volunteer Rifle Corps, 1878-1901
- Object name(s):
- button
- Brief description:
- Button, Agra Volunteer Rifle Corps, 1878-1901. Large, black metal button with monogram, ‘AVR’, in the centre, within a garter inscribed, ‘Agra Volunteer Rifles’, surmounted by Queen Victoria’s crown. Raised in 1878, the Agra Volunteer Rifle Corps was an Indian Army auxiliary unit. In 1917, during World War One (1914-1918), it became the 19th Agra Company. 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. 2013-10-20-84-425
- Right type:
- National Army Museum Copyright
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