Glengarry Cap With Lorne Rifles Badge
Description
- Media Type
- Image
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- Item Type
- Photographs
- Description
- The first photograph shows the Glengarry cap with the badge. The second photograph is a close-up of the Lorne Rifles badge. According to Ron Dale, historian at Fort George in Niagara, this cap badge was in use from 1900 to 1909, the Boer War period, by this Rifle Battalion of Infantry. Although, as per the Wikipedia information in the Notes here, the cap badge could have been used as early as the end of 1881. The provenance is still being researched by interested historians.
The badge and cap belonged either to Stanley Walter Platt or to Robert L. Graham. The owner is continuing research to determine the answer. (We have also posted photographs in a separate record of the commemorative walking stick presented to Captain Graham upon his retirement from his regiment, 7 Co. 22nd Batt, at the age of 33 in 1898.) - Notes
- According to Wikipedia, the Lorne Rifles (Scottish) originated in Milton, Ontario on 28 September 1866, as the 20th Halton Battalion of Infantry. It was redesignated the 20th Halton Battalion of Rifles on 12 January 1872, as the 20th Halton Battalion Lorne Rifles on 11 November 1881, as the 20th Halton Regiment Lorne Rifles on 8 May 1900, as the 20th Regiment, Halton Rifles on 1 December 1909, as the Halton Rifles on 1 May 1920 and the Lorne Rifles (Scottish) on 1 November 1931. On 15 December 1936, it was amalgamated with the Peel and Dufferin Regiment.
- Inscriptions
- 20 Lorne Rifles
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Stanley Walter Platt ; Robert L. Graham
- Local identifier
- TTRMP000363
- Collection
- Trafalgar Township Historical Society
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.51681 Longitude: -79.88294
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- Glengarry Cap With Lorne Rifles Badge
- Contact
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Trafalgar Township Historical Society Sponsor: Jeff Knoll, Local & Regional Councillor for Oakville Ward 5 – Town of Oakville/Regional Municipality of Halton
