Cap Badge - 5th Territorial (Cumberland) Battalion, The Border Regiment in use from 1908 until 1947. This badge was sold by Jim Purdy for $30.00 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. . It is a white-metal badge in the form of an eight-pointed star overlaid by a Maltese cross. The topmost point of the star is displaced by an Imperial crown bearing a circlet inscribed 'SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02' with, in the centre, '5th'. At the base of the star is scroll inscribed 'BORDER CUMBERLAND REGIMENT'. The 5th (Cumberland) Battalion, The Border Regiment was raised in Carlisle in August 1914, they were attached to the East Lancashire Division and trained in Barrow. They proceeded to France on the 26th of October 1914 landing at Le Havre. On the 5th of May 1915 they joined 149th Brigade, 50th (Northumbrian) Division and on 20 December 1915 they transferred to 151st Brigade also in 50th Division. They saw action in the Second Battle of Ypres, on The Somme, the Battle of Arras and the Third Battle of Ypres. On the 12th of February 1918 the Battalion transferred to as Pioneer Battalion to 66th (2nd East Lancashire) Division and were in action on the Somme. On the 7th of May 1918 they transferred to 97th Brigade in 32nd Division and absorbed a cadre of the Border Regiment's 11th (Lonsdale) Battalion and were in action during the Battle of the Hindenburg Line and during the final advance in Picardy.