Cap Badge - The King's Regiment (Liverpool), possibly the 5th Battalion This is Pattern 4362A/1896 ["The Kings' scroll]. It was the first 'cap' badge for the Regt, sealed on 7 January, 1896. It was declared obsolete on 21 December 1926. This particular example dates from 1906 up to about 1915. Later in the war they became a bit cruder as production was increased. The sucessor was the Pattern 10042/1926 [King's in Old English script scroll]sealed on 15th September 1926. I have not yet found an official date for it's "obsolescence" but its successor (Pattern 14312/1950, often referred to erroneously as a "beret" badge) was sealed on 13 April 1950 (specifically as a "cap" badge). The 10042/1926 was worn (unofficially) up to 1958 when the King's Regiment disappeared. The badge of this regiment depicts the White Horse of Hannover in a prancing attitude. Its rear legs stand on a straight scroll below which is a title scroll inscribed 'King's'. This commemorates King George I's renaming of the regiment after himself and his granting of the Hanoverian household badge following the regiment's loyal service during the First Jacobite Rebellion (1715). The King's Regiment (Liverpool) was one of the oldest infantry regiments of the British Army, having been formed in 1685 and numbered as the 8th (The King's) Regiment of Foot in 1751. Unlike most British infantry regiments, which were associated with a county, the King's represented the city of Liverpool, one of only four regiments affiliated to a city in the British Army. After 273 years of continuous existence, the regiment was amalgamated with the Manchester Regiment in 1958 to form the King's Regiment (Liverpool and Manchester) which was later amalgamated with the King's Own Royal Border Regiment and the Queen's Lancashire Regiment to form the present Duke of Lancaster's Regiment.