Bonnet Badge of The Liverpool Scottish, The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

1937 -1967

Click on the image for a larger version. This badge, that of The Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders with the addition of Liverpool Scottish on scrolls, was worn by The Liverpool Scottish from 1937 to 1967 when the 1st Battalion The Liverpool Scottish was disbanded and succeeeded by V (The Liverpool Scottish) Company 51st Highland Volunteers. The Cameron affiliation developed throughout the Great War and had been a very strong on since the beginning of the 1920's when Liverpool Scots began to be given Cameron Highlanders Army numbers. An identical badge was used, with screw-threaded lugs at the back, on the cantle of the silver-topped sporrans though some are still found with the badge of 10th (Scottish) Bn, The King's (Liverpool Regiment). The badge was worn in Tam o'Shanter (TOS) and in the glengarry, in both cases with the Cameron blue hackle ('plumes, blue' in the syntactically distorted language of the quartermaster's stores) since the use was approved by King George VI during the Second World War. A third lug may often be found at the base of the badge (behind the feet of St. Andrew) to secure the plume or hackle in its place behind the badge.

Line drawing courtesy of Dr Diana M Henderson