Brooches

This brooch, made of emeralds, rubies and diamonds and set in platinum was presented to the Suffolk Regiment's Colonel-in Chief, Princess Margaret in May 1953. It was returned to the Regiment following Princess Margaret's death and remains on loan to us from The Royal Collection.

The brooch was given by Mr A V Farmer, a former Great War Suffolk Regiment Officer, to his wife as a reward for her courage during their internment in China from 1949 to 1952. It is modelled on the regimental cap badge.

For 28 years, up to its creation as part of the Territorial Force in 1908, the Cambridgeshire Regiment work Suffolk Regiment badges and buttons. Mrs M. E. Lyon, wife of Colonel A. J. Lyon VL DL Commanding Officer from 1902 to 1911, designed a new Cambridgeshire badge for the Regiment. When it had been accepted officially, the Commanding Officer had one made in gold, studded with diamonds, which he gave to her. Mrs Lyon directed that, after her death, it should be given in her name for the use of the wife of the current Commanding Officer.