United Kingdom. A Royal Middlesex Rifles Helmet Plate, C.1860 Newly Listed Footnote: The Ostlegion was composed

Footnote: The Ostlegion was composed of non-Russian volunteers from Soviet territories

and is held together by a single side rivet

He was re-deployed to the Eastern Front in 1915

1914 with a strength of 39 officers and 717 other ranks under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel S

this time to the 38th Battalion in the French theatre on August 20th

United Kingdom. A Royal Middlesex Rifles Helmet Plate, C.1860 Newly Listed Footnote: The Ostlegion was composedIn die stamped silvered bronze, voided, unmarked, measuring 70 mm (w) x 93. 5 mm (h), a piece of red felt placed behind the voided area of the centrepiece, one of two lugs intact, the lion between the arms at 6 and 9 o'clock has been lost to time, exhibiting scattered spotting and greening, near fine.