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2015.063.005
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2015.063
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Glengarry
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Queen's Own Highlanders glengarry
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Anodized Aluminum/Wool
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Queen's Own Highlanders cap badge glengarry
Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) dark blue (black) glengarry without dicing. It is made in Canada. Size 7 1/4
On the hat is an Anodized Aluminum Queen's Own Highlanders (Seaforth and Camerons) cap badge. The blue hackle is missing.
From the QO Hldrs regimental history:
"The badge of the Queen's Own Highlanders is described as 'A Stag's Head caboshed, between the attires the Thistle ensigned with the Crown, with the motto Cuidich 'n Righ'. The 'Thistle ensigned with the Imperial Crown' is the badge of Scotland as sanctioned by Queen Anne in 1707. It was granted to the 79th Cameron Highlanders on 10th July 1873 by Her Majesty Queen Victoria when she commanded that the 79th should in future be styled as the '79th Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders'. The Stag's Head 'caboshed' (a heraldic term meaning cut off to show no part of the neck) comes from the Arms of MacKenzie of Seaforth.
There are two possible explanations of the Arms and of the motto 'Cuidich 'n Righ'.
Tradition has it that King Alexander III of Scotland, while hunting in the Forest of Mar, was charged and lllhorsed by an angry stag; and that Colin Fitzgerald, mcestor of the MacKenzies of Seaforth, saved the King's ife by killing the stag, shouting as he did so 'Cuidich 'n Righ' (Help the King')."
The Queen's Own Highlanders, in common with other regiments, wore the Highland Brigade badge from 1961 until 1970 when regimental bonnet badges were reintroduced.
The 51 st Highland Volunteers T A continue to wear the Highland Brigade bonnet badge.
From 1961 to 1970 the pipers of the Queen's Own Highlanders wore a different bonnet badge. It was discontinued when the regimental bonnet badge was introduced in 1970.

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