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The 28th, North Gloucestershire Regiment
1881 The Gloucestershire Regiment
61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot
1881 2 Bn The Gloucestershire Regiment
Letter Crests
28th “NORTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE” / “REGIMENT”
(Ryan Fig.43)
61st “SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE” / “REGIMENT”
Centre Crown over 61
(Ryan Fig.93) Photo Needed
Another Version has been observed with the title ring “SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE” / “REGT”
61st Other Ranks Pre.1871, Photo needed.
“GLOUCESTERSHIRE” / “REGIMENT”
Gloucestershire Regiment Worn 1881-1901
(Ryan Fig.193)
I have noted variations of the Spinx with the tail facing forwards as per the Volunteer examples shown below. Photo Needed.
“GLOUCESTERSHIRE” / “REGIMENT”
Gloucestershire Regiment Worn 1881-1901
(Ryan Fig.193 variation in tail of Sphinx)
This clasp in unusual as its of known provenance to an officer in the 4th Battalion the Gloucestershire Regiment. Lieutenant Slingsby Westbury Bethell, 4th Battalion, the Gloucestershire Regiment, resigns his Commission on the 6th June, 1883. 4th (Militia) Battalion – formerly the Royal North Gloucestershire Militia
“ROYAL SOUTH GLOUCESTER” / “MILITIA”
Royal Gloucester Militia Other Ranks.
Became 3rd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in 1881.
Center should be a strung bugle.
Royal North Gloucestershire Militia became 4th (Militia) Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment in 1881.
“GLOUCESTERSHIRE” / “REGIMENT”
Volunteer Bn Worn 1881-1901
“ROYAL FOREST OF DEAN RIFLES”
12th Corps
Unit (County) Precedence Number 20.
1859: 2nd Gloucestershire Rifle Volunteers Corps.
1860: 1st Admin Bn Gloucestershire R.V.
1880: Bn Consolidated as 2nd Gloucestershire R.V.C.
1883: Re-designated: 2nd V.B. Gloucestershire Regiment.