Cap Badge - Royal Jersey Light Infantry (11th Royal Militia Island of Jersey Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment 1914-1946) This badge was sold by Jim Purdy for $20.00 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 badge was in brass and included three leopards on the central shield facing the viewer's left. A King's Crown version also existed with leopards facing the viewer's right as did its Queen Victoria Crown predecessor. Presumably this was a belated remembrance of heraldic precepts. The Channel Islands units were not revived in 1947. The Royal Jersey Light Infantry became the 11th Battalion of The Hampshire Regiment in 1940. The 50th (Holding) Battalion was formed in the Isle of Wight in June 1940, and absorbed the Royal Militia of the Island of Jersey. The Jersey Militia subsequently became the 11th Battalion, whilst the rest of the 50th Battalion became the 12th Battalion. The 11th Battalion stayed in the United Kingdom as a training battalion until the war ended, with the 209th Brigade and later the 135th Brigade, 45th (Holding) Division. All the Channel Islands Militia (Royal Alderney, Royal Guernsey, Royal Jersey) claim to have been founded in the 13th-14th centuries. Militia were a class of part-time soldiers that was eventually superseded by the Territorial Army. The terms of their liability for call-up varied over the centuries. In the 1881 Army reorganization which paired all regular infantry into two-battalion regiments, the Militia became the 3rd (and sometimes 4th) Battalion of these regiments. The Channel Islands Militia notably were excluded from this scheme and kept their old titles. No Militia were embodied after 1919, but government attempts to disband them outright in 1920 met with stiff resistance. The Militia remained dormant in W.W.II, and finally in 1953 they were disbanded, with the notable exception of the "Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia)" which transferred to the Territorial Army while keeping its Militia subtitle.