Cap Badge - South Lancashire Prince of Wales Volunteers. Other Ranks Badge Badge of the pattern worn 1898 to 1958. The predecessor Regiment was raised in 1717, in North America and the West Indies, s Richard Phillips Regiment of Foot. In 1747 it was ranked as 40th Foot and known by that number from 1751. In 1782 it was re-designated 40th (2nd Somersetshire) Regiment of Foot. In the Cardwell reforms of 1881 the Regiment was merged with the 82nd Foot (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers to become The Prince of Wales’s Volunteers (South Lancashire) Regiment. At this time the badge was of a Sphinx on a tablet embossed EGYPT, a distinction awarded in 1802 to the 40th for its service against the French in Egypt in 1801. With the coming of the forage cap in 1898 the Regiment kept its name but adopted a new badge that incorporated the Prince of Wales’s plume, coronet and motto scroll from the old 82nd, whose founding Colonel had been on the Prince's staff. Two scrolls were added, one above embossed SOUTH LANCASHIRE and one below, with PRINCE OF WALES’S VOLs. The second battalion also wore a red badge backing, a distinction inherited from the 82nd. In 1931 permission was granted for both battalions to wear this. In 1938 the Regiment was re-designated The South Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) but kept the badge unchanged. In 1958 the Regiment merged with the East Lancashire Regiment to form the Lancashire Regiment, and became part of the Lancastrian Brigade, adopting the Brigade badge. (A badge exists with just the Prince of Wales’s plume, coronet and motto scroll but it is thought that, if worn, it would have been by a TA battalion.) The South Lancashire Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1958. It was formed as part of the Childers Reforms as the Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire Regiment) by the amalgamation of the 40th Regiment of Foot and the 82nd Regiment of Foot. In 1938, it was renamed the South Lancashire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's Volunteers) and in 1958 was amalgamated with the East Lancashire Regiment to form the Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) which was later amalgamated with the Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire) to form the Queen's Lancashire Regiment which was also amalgamated with several other infantry regiments, in 2007, to form the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.