17th Lancers & 17th/21st Lancers


Officers OSD & Silver Plate


Silver Plate (x2 Loops E/W)
* FIRMIN LONDON P


Bronze (x2 Blades E/W)


Capt G.W.M. Lees wearing the distinctive "Spur bone" Motto in his service cap. Geoffrey William Martin Lees was born in 1891, the son of a wealthy Cheshire cotton miller. He was educated at Winchester College, Oxford and served in the 17th Lancers in France during World War One. He purchased Falcutt Hall in 1921 and moved there with his new wife Ellen Penn. Captain Lees died in 1968.


Bronze (x2 Blades N/S)


Great War period Officer.


White Metal (Slider)


White Metal (Slider)
* Unvoided.


White Metal (Slider)
* Unvoided.
** Will sometimes be found with a curled end to the silder. Probably hooked to prevent slipping out of the Pagri.


Thin White Metal (Tapered Slider)
* NAAFI Purchase as seen on the ORs FFSCap below.




Mid Cold War beret with a service blackened thin metal motto.