United Kingdom. A 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles Piper’s Plaid Brooch, .c1955

Two-piece construction, in silver-nickel, voided, measuring 76 mm in diameter, vertical pinback, contact marks and pitting evident on the obverse, scratches and tape residue evident on the reverse, better than very fine.

Footnote: The 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles was originally a rifle regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment was first formed in 1890, taking its lineage from a police unit and over the course of its existence it had a number of changes in designation and composition. It took part in a number of campaigns on the Indian frontiers during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, before fighting in the First World War, the Third Anglo-Afghan War and the Second World War. Following India's independence in 1947, the regiment was one of four Gurkha regiments to be transferred to the British Army. In the 1960s, it was active in the Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation. It was amalgamated with the other three British Gurkha regiments to form the Royal Gurkha Rifles in 1994.