British Army Cap Badge - 1970's 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Regiment

This is the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Regiment

Badges are White Metal look.

The 10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles was originally an infantry 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 fought during the a number of campaigns on the Indian frontiers during the 19th and early 20th centuries, before taking part 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 the regiment took part in the Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation. In 1994 it was amalgamated with the other three British Gurkha regiments to form the Royal Gurkha Rifles.