Cap Badge - 1st Battalion, 1st Brahmin Regiment, British Indian Army This badge was sold by Jim Purdy for $175.00 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 'helmet or pagri badge' of the 1st Battalion had the two fish, touching at the mouth with the Arabic numeral '1' between them and their tails joined by a small palque bearing the number '1776'. The golden pair of kissing fish (matsya) is not unique to India but in that nation it came to represent the rivers Ganges and Yamuna which in turn represent the lunar and solar channels of the body. A symbol important to Hindus, Jain and Buddists The 1st Brahmans was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised at Oudh by Captain T Naylor in 1776 for service in the army of Nawab Wazir of Oudh, and was known as the Nawab Wazir's Regiment. It was transferred to the East India Company in 1777. In 1922, it was designated as the 4th Battalion 1st Punjab Regiment. It was disbanded in 1931.