Somerset Light Infantry 3rd Volunteer Battalion Officer’s Green Cloth Victorian Period Helmet, a good quality example complete with all blackened metal fittings, the frontal plate of crowned Bath star style pattern, on the circle ‘3rd Volr Batn Somerset Light Infantry’, in the centre on a ground of green cloth a strung bugle horn, chin chain of correct ribbed Rifles pattern, buff leather sweat band with red silk lining, the plate is original to the helmet, some loss to the leather trim on the rear peak, very slight surface moth damage otherwise very good condition £400-600