Button, Madras Staff Corps, 1861-1876 (gilt)

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Button, Madras Staff Corps, 1861-1876 (gilt)

5928362 Button, Madras Staff Corps, 1861-1876 (gilt) by English School, (19th century); National Army Museum, London; (add.info.: Button, Madras Staff Corps, 1861-1876.
Gilt button with Queen VictoriaAs cypher within a garter inscribed with the unit title, A Madras Staff CorpsA, surmounted by a crown and with leaf motifs around the edge.
The Madras Army was the army of the Madras Presidency, one of the three presidencies that made up the East India Company. After the Indian Mutiny of 1857 the presidencies and their armies came under the direct authority of the British Crown. From 1861 each army had its own staff corps created to provide and place officers in military, civil and political posts. In 1903 the presidency armies were merged into the British Indian Army with the separate staff corps amalgamated into the Indian Staff Corps.
From the Field Marshal Sir John Chapple Indian Army Collection.); eNational Army Museum; English, out of copyright. © National Army Museum / Bridgeman Images

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