Cap Badge - The Prince of Wales’s Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) This badge was sold by Jim Purdy for $35.00 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. Bimetal cap badge used from 1881 to 1922. The Prince of Wales coronet and feathers above the motto. Below is the regiment’s abbreviated title "The Leinster". In this version the motto scroll has dropped edges, that differ with other regiments incorporating the POW feathers. During WW I a version with a rolled edge motto scroll was issued. The regiment was formed in 1881 by merging the 100th (Prince of Wales's Royal Canadian) and 109th (Bombay Infantry) Regiments of Foot.The new regiment thus inherited the 100th Foot's association with Canada and the association of the antecedent of the 109th with India as part of the forces of the Honourable East India Company. At its creation the regiment also gained a new territorial association, being allocated a recruiting area covering Meath, Westmeath, Longford, King's County (now Offaly) and Queen's County (now Laois), five counties in the Leinster province of central and east Ireland. The Prince of Wales's Leinster Regiment (Royal Canadians) in addition to wearing as a badge the Prince of Wales's Plume, was the only regiment in the army which had the distinctive Canadian maple leaf as a specially distinctive badge, and in earlier years the "Beaver" of Canada was worn by the 1st Battalion. In addition to the two Regiments of Foot, there were three Militia Battalions of the Leinsters. The 3rd Battalion (King's County Militia) who staffed the Regimental Headquarters at Birr (Ireland) and who also volunteered for the South African War embarking on the 7th March 1900, returning to Birr on the 26th May, 1902. The 4th Battalion (Queens County Militia) who were stationed at Maryborough. and the 5th Battalion (Royal Meath Militia) who were quartered at Navan. The Regiment fought in the Great War of 1914 to 1918 and won many more battle honours. An Irish Regiment, the Leinster Regiment was disbanded in 1922 when Southern Ireland withdrew from the United Kingdom to form the Irish Free State.