ID for an Inniskillings item

[depaor01]

Hi,

Another random query from the public - I've never seen a similar item. 

Is it a bed plate?

What is the significance of the 27?

 

Thanks,

Dave

[travers61]

The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers were formed in 1881 by the merger of the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot & the 108th Regiment of Foot. The 27th became the 1st Battaliion of the new regiment.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Inniskilling_Fusiliers

 

From talking to my grandmother, who worked on officers pay in WW1, she mentioned that they dealt with regiments by their number, so its possible after 1881 the new regiment became the 27th Regiment, at least for pay purposes.

[mark holden]

27th Regt of Foot became the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. By the construction and four holes possibly for a battalion or regimental sign or board.

[FROGSMILE]

The shoulder title is a pre-WW1 pattern, and the castle badge was variously used both with, and without, a title scroll ‘INNISKILLINGS’ including by pipers, sometimes with a separate scroll and sometimes conjoined.
 

The largest castle badge  was used on a bandsman’s music pouch slung diagonally in the centre of his back, which in theory held the regimental play book or music card.  The pattern of the badge changed slightly over the years and was originally in brass/gilding metal.

 

NB.  The plate has seemingly been designed to look very much like the shoulder belt plates worn by officers and men at the time of the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.

 

Edited 17 December , 2019 by FROGSMILE

[depaor01]

Very interesting.  Thanks for the contributions chaps,

Dave