- Title:
- Cap badge, officer, Burma Rifles, 1937-1942
- Object name(s):
- cap badge
- Brief description:
- Officer's cap badge, Burma Rifles, 1937-1942. Silveron badge with Burmese male peacock displaying, with a scroll bearing the unit’s title, ‘Burma Rifles’, below. The 20th Burma Rifles were formed in 1922 from battalions raised during World War One (1914-1918). The Burma Rifles were formed from the 20th Burma RIfles in 1937 when the British separated Burma from India. When Burma gained independence the Burma Rifles were absorbed into the Burmese Army. 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:
- cap badge
- Object number:
- NAM. 2013-10-20-46-22
- Right type:
- National Army Museum Copyright
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