QVC North Yorkshire Volunteers Blackened brass 24mm button

North Yorkshire Volunteers Blackened brass 24mm button by unusual amker T. Harding & Sons, 10 Regent St, London W  .

The North Yorkshire Volunteers was Formed during the 1859 invasion scare, when volunteer rifle corps sprang up across Britain to supplement the regular army

• The 1st Administrative Battalion, Yorkshire North Riding Rifle Volunteers was constituted on 7 July 1860 with its headquarters at Richmond, North Yorkshire, with local volunteer corps raised at over 15 places throughout the North Riding

• The bugle horn on your button is the classic rifle volunteer emblem (rifle units used bugles rather than drums for signalling, hence the motif on virtually all RVC buttons and badges of this period)

• The White Rose of Yorkshire sits at the centre, between the bugle’s coils•