1st Battalion (The East Sydney Regiment) Reproduced Cap Badge. Australia.

A brass REPRODUCED Tudor (King's) Crown cap badge for 1st Battalion (The East Sydney Regiment), Australia.
Good Quality badge reproduced in the 1970's for display purposes. Good gap-filler.

Good condition with two lugs intact. Ref: J256.

The 1st Battalion was an infantry battalion of the Australian Army.
The 1st Battalion can trace its lineage back to 1854, when a unit of the Volunteer Rifles was raised in Sydney. This unit has since been redesignated a number of times.
During the First World War, the 1st Battalion was raised for overseas service in August 1914 as part of the First Australian Imperial Force. The battalion served in Egypt, Gallipoli and the Western Front. Following the end of the war the battalion was disbanded in May 1919.
In 1921, the battalion was reformed as part of the Militia as the 1st Battalion (East Sydney Regiment).
In 1927 the battalion officially adopted the designation of 1st Battalion (East Sydney Regiment). Throughout the interwar years the unit's designation changed a couple of times and for a time it was amalgamated with the 19th Battalion.
During the Second World War the battalion served as garrison force in Australia before being disbanded in 1944 due to manpower shortages.
Following the war the 1st Battalion was not re-raised until 1957 when it was reformed as a commando unit in Sydney as the "1st Infantry Battalion (Commando) (City of Sydney's Own Regiment)" before being reduced to a company-sized element in the 1st Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment.
In 1965, the battalion was reformed as the 1st Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment (Commando).
It maintained the commando role until 1971 when it was amalgamated once again with the 19th Battalion to become the 1st/19th Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment, a unit of the Australian Army Reserve that remains in existence today.
On 1 July 1930, the 1st Battalion was amalgamated with the 19th Battalion, later adopting the title of the 1st/19th Battalion (City of Sydney's Own Regiment).
They remained linked until 1939 when the battalions were delinked. For a brief period, the battalion was known as the 1st Battalion (City of Sydney Regiment).
In October 1942, the 1st Battalion was amalgamated with the 45th Battalion to form the 1st/45th Battalion. In 1944 the 1st/45th Battalion was disbanded having not deployed overseas for World War Two (WW2).
In 1957 it was decided to expand the 1st Commando Company as a full battalion named the 1st Infantry Battalion (Commando), City of Sydney's Own Regiment.
In 1960 this unit formed No. 1 Commando Company (The City of Sydney Company), 1st Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment.
In 1965 this company was once again raised to a full battalion sized unit, forming the 1st Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment (Commando).
1971 it was amalgamated with the 19th Battalion to become 1st/19th Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment, a unit which remains in existence today.