Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to coincide with the OMRS Convention

Trinity College Dublin Volunteer Infantry, an extremely fine and rare officer’s copper gilt shoulder belt plate 1797-1815, a narrow roped rim encloses an engraved crowned shield this bears a lion passant the harp and maid, a closed book and a twin towered castle, further engraved scrolls above and below read, ‘Tam Marti’ and ‘Quam Minerva’, complete with all four reverse fasteners and leather liner, the plate with very minor wear retains approximately 95% gilt £800-1000

See Colour Plate XII

Raised in 1803 the original Captain Commandant Arthur Browne was soon replaced by Francis Hodgekinson; the mottos are typical Georgian exhortations, ‘As well by strength as by wisdom’, the unit is in the 1807 Volunteer List but not that of 1817.