HLI Chronicle 1907 - The Royal Highland Fusiliers

HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY CHRONICLE.
We -only reach sure ground when we come
to 1809, the year the 71st became Light '
Infantry, and the thinl sketeh'shows the plate
then introduced and worn till about 1814.
, This plate had a polished silver baRe, and the
ornaments are raised in silver. It is fairly
represented on Colonel Cadogan's monument
in Glasgow Cathedral.
In 1814 the one shown in our fourth sketch
was introduced. This was a handsome design,
but it is noticeable that the Light Infantry
horn is omitted. There is at present a private's
plate of this design, in brass, in the Museum
on the field of \Vaterloo. This was superseded,
probably in a year or two aIter that ba~tle, by
that shown in the fifth sketch. The plate was
OFFICER'S. BELT PLATE, 1814-1818.
represents the design of the second plate, as
it may have been copied from it; but until
further information in the form either of the
ootnal plate, or of a portrait, is forthcoming,
We cannot be certain of this, and conjecture in
such a. matter is not satisfactory.
OFFICER'S BELT· ,PLATE, 1818-141 (1).
OFFICER'S BELT PLATE, 1841·1881.
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of polished silver, with raised gilt ornaments,
forming a very handsome design. This in
turn gave place, about 1830-when in Regular
Regiments aU lace, buttons, and plate bases,
were ordered to be of gold or gilt-to one
similar in design to the last, but with gilt base
and silver ornaments. This is an assumption
on the part of the 1i'lriter, but on the following
grounds :-(a) There is record of a new plate
being introduced in 1841.; (b) the/bugle AND
STRINGS badge was in use in the Regiment
on chacos and forage caps till 1838 ; (c) when
the above-mentioned order altering silver to
gold came into force, many corps reversed tlie
composition of their bl east plates-i.e., changed