- Title:
- Helmet badge, 98th Infantry, 1903-1922
- Object name(s):
- helmet badge
- Brief description:
- Helmet badge, 98th Infantry, 1903-1922. White metal badge with regimental number, ‘98’, within a circlet bearing the number, ‘Indian Army Infantry’, surmounted by a King’s Crown, on an eight-pointed, rayed star. The 98th Infantry was a regiment originally raised in 1788 as the Salabat Khan’s Regiment in the Princely State of Hyderabad. In 1826 the unit became the 7th Regiment of the Nizam of Hyderabad’s Army. In 1854 it became the 5th Hyderabad Contigent. With the reform of the Indian Army in 1903, the regiment was renumbered the 98th Infantry. In 1922 the unit became the 4th Battalion, 19th Hyderabad Regiment. The regiment served in East Africa during World War One (1914-1918). 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:
- helmet badge
- Object number:
- NAM. 2013-10-20-45-72
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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