- Title:
- Button, Calcutta Volunteer Rifles, pre-1901
- Object name(s):
- button
- Brief description:
- Button, Calcutta Volunteer Rifles, pre-1901. White metal button with unit initials, ‘CVR’, surrounded by wreath and surmounted by crown. The Calcutta Volunteer Rifles Corps was auxiliary infantry unit formed in 1863. It was reconstituted in March 1898 as the 1st Battalion Calcutta Volunteer Rifles and became the 5th Calcutta Battalion in 1917. 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. 2013-10-20-84-124
- Right type:
- National Army Museum Copyright
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/ba0718a5-52a7-3e23-8ded-026934ce3cdd, National Army Museum, CC BY-NC
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