Cap Badge - The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment This badge was sold by Jim Purdy for $20.00 on e-Bay in the Spring/Summer of 2017. This badge was deemed irrelevant to the museum. The money was used to purchase relevant badges for the collection. Badge of the pattern worn 1901 to 1921. The predecessor Regiment was formed in 1741 as John Mordaunt’s Regiment of Foot. It was ranked as 58th Regiment of Foot, in 1751 re-designated and formally named 47th Regiment of Foot. In 1782 it was re-named 47th (Lancashire) Regiment of Foot. In 1881 the Regiment merged with 81st Foot (Loyal Lincoln Volunteers) to form the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. The two key elements of the badge were extant at this point, the Royal crest and the rose. The Royal Crest is that of the Duchy of Lancaster, a Royal Dukedom, the rose representing the rose of Lancaster, both clearly linked back to the 47th. The 81st’s contribution to the merged Regiment was the title “Loyal”. The same key elements went on after the adoption of the forage cap in 1898 to form the new badge, with the addition of the scroll bearing the Regimental name. In 1921 the name was changed to The Loyal Regiment (North Lancashire), with associated change to the name on the scroll. In 1958 the Regiment became part of the Lancastrian Brigade and should have worn the Brigade badge. In 1970 the Regiment merged with the Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Volunteers) to form the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment. In the 1960s Territorial Army structure the Loyal Regiment had a form of continuation by virtue of having the two “D” Companies of the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the Lancastrian Volunteers sub-titled “(Loyals)”. In July 2006 a new Regiment was formed, The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment (King’s Lancashire and Border), its three constituent battalions being the single-battalion Regiments of The Queen’s Lancashire, The King’s and The King’s Own Royal Border, forming respectively the 1st to 3rd Battalions. In March 2007 the 3rd Battalion was disbanded and its personnel distributed among the remaining two battalions. . Physical description: bi-metal badge comprising the Royal Crest (a lion standing on an Imperial (King's) crown) above the Rose of Lancashire. Below the Rose is a scroll inscribed 'LOYAL NORTH LANCASHIRE'. The Royal Crest is in white metal, the remainder in brass. Two lugs to reverse.