Essex Regiment-Volunteers.

Scarce Victorian black-brass NCO's cross-belt plate with three screw bolts to the reverse. A shield bearing the Essex Seaxes to the centre of a circlet carrying the title, " Beacontree 5th. Essex Rifles" within a wreath of laurel surmounted by the crown upon a blank tablet. The 5th.Essex Rifle Volunteers were formed at Plaistow in 1859 and then renumbered " 3rd." in 1880 moving to West Ham.

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