Cap Badge - 14th Battalion, (Young Citizen Volunteers of Belfast), Royal Irish Rifles mislabelled as the "North Irish Antrim Horse". Badge: A white metal shamrock with the Red Hand of Ulster with King's crown above. The white metal shoulder title was in the form of the three letters 'YCV'. This badge was sold by Jim Purdy for $165.00 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. The Battalion was raised in Belfast in September 1914 from the Young Citizens' Volunteers of Ireland. They continued to wear their own badges and buttons. The unit saw service with 36th (Ulster) Division. It was disbanded in February 1918. The Young Citizen Volunteers (YCV) was an officially Ireland-wide, although in fact Belfast-based, militia group established in 1912. Initially adopted an officially politically neutral stance it quickly became associated with Unionism and opposition to the Irish Home Rule Movement. During the First World War it became closely linked to the Ulster Volunteers before ultimately being subsumed by that group. Its name would later be resurrected by the YCV youth movement attached to the 1966 Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF). Although there is no direct continuity between the two groups, they share the same emblem of a shamrock surmounted by a Red Hand of Ulster. The 14th (Young Citizens) Battalion was raised in Belfast in September 1914 from the Belfast Volunteers. They moved to Bundoran in December 1914, then to Randalstown in January 1915. and joined 108th Brigade, 36th (Ulster) Division. The Ulster Division was formed from the Ulster Volunteer Force in August and September 1914, a process complicated by the tension surrounding the issue of Home rule. In July 1915 they moved to Seaford, Sussex in England. They proceeded to France in the first week of October, landing at Boulogne. The 36th (Ulster) Division concentrated near Flesselles, north of Arras. With training and familiarisation, including periods in the trenches with 4th Division in the front line north of the River Ancre near Albert. On the 21st of October they moved to the area around Abbeville. The 36th Ulster Division took over the front line in Spring. In 1916 they Division suffered heavily on the first day of the Battle of the Somme where they attacked at Thiepval. In 1917 They were in action at The Battle of Messines, capturing Wytschaete and in the The Battle of Langemarck during the Third Battles of Ypres and the The Cambrai Operations where the Division captured Bourlon Wood. The 14th battalion was disbanded in France on the 18th of February 1918 with the troops transferring to other units. The Royal Irish Rifles (became the Royal Ulster Rifles from 1 January 1921) was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army, first created in 1881 by the amalgamation of the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment of Foot and the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot. The regiment saw service in the Second Boer War, the First World War, the Second World War and the Korean War. In 1968 the regiment was amalgamated with the Royal Irish Fusiliers and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers to create the Royal Irish Rangers. However, in 1992, the Royal Irish Rangers was later merged with the Ulster Defence Regiment to form the Royal Irish Regiment.