The burnished gilt plate had silver fittings which included a Hanoverian crown over a garter inscribed NORTH LINCOLN and X on a silver domed centre. The battle honour PENINSULA was on a scroll beneath the crown and the Sphinx for EGYPT beneath the garter. A laurel wreath surrounded the whole design.
Major Parkyn’s book on shoulder-belt plates does not say what plate replaced the distinctive crescent shape in 1816, but a description in the possession of Hastings Irwin has a rectangular silver plate with the crescent superimposed. That may well have been worn in the 1820s. In 1830 the regiment changed from silver to gold along with the rest of the infantry. Parkyn describes the belt plate worn from 1830 to 1836:
‘The plate 1830-1826 was an oblong dead gilt matted one with the design mounted, of a gilt crown resting on a scroll inscribed ‘Peninsula’; below this a silver garter inscribed ‘North Lincoln’ with X in gilt in its centre and a gilt wreath encircling; at the junction of the wreath a silver Sphinx inscribed ‘Egypt’.
