Pharmaceutical Corps
 

Morning!
I picked up the attached badge on ebay, a'Buy it now' purchase, a couple of years ago for about £25. I think it was described as WW2. At the time I believed it was a WW1 VTC mufti badge. I remember Ray Westlake wrote an article about the Pharmacists Corps (which I can't find) but illustrations of the Pharmacists cap badge show a different motto, Scientia Vincit, to my badge. Can anyone confirm that the Pharmaceutical Corps and the Pharmacists are indeed one and the same?

Many thanks

Steve H

Steve,

I think the Westlake article you were thinking about was in the MHS Bulletin of November 1981 and it is attached.

The unit Ray wrote about seems to have had a different motto from the one on your badge. Could there have been more than one Corps made up of Pharmacists ?

P.B.

Steve,

My understanding, and I would also welcome any confirmation, is that the Pharmaceutical Corps is a American corps, set up some time before WW2. The Pharmacists Volunteer Training Corps, as you know, was a WW1 British VTC, so very different.

Best regards,

Tim

Hello Peter and Tim, many thanks for your replies and for taking the trouble to post the article it's much appreciated. The only additional information I should have posted was that it was made by 'Toye & Co Ltd, London'. I shall have to check the American angle now!

All best

Steve