Original Item: Only One Available. Royal Rifles Other Ranks pre WW1 Busby. Black seal fur with attached pleated cords. Corded boss to front with black strung bugle insignia for rifles. Black wool top with black over red hair Hackle plume. Black leather headband and lining. Features an original Hobson & Sons of London maker label with 1912 date. Name label inside, difficult to read. Size is 7 1/4. Overall condition is very good to excellent making this a fantastic Great War British Army display piece.

The King's Royal Rifle Corps was an infantry rifle regiment of the British Army that was originally raised in British North America as the Royal American Regiment during the phase of the Seven Years' War in North America known as 'The French and Indian War.' Subsequently numbered the 60th Regiment of Foot, the regiment served for more than 200 years throughout the British Empire. In 1958, the regiment joined the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and the Rifle Brigade in the Green Jackets Brigade and in 1966 the three regiments were formally amalgamated to become the Royal Green Jackets. The KRRC became the 2nd Battalion Royal Green Jackets. On the disbandment of 1/RGJ in 1992, the RGJ's KRRC battalion was redesignated as 1/RGJ, eventually becoming 2/RIFLES in 2007.